Description:
Railway labour (items #1-8), gas pipeline fees / labour (#3,5,6), road labour (#1), Army camp labour (#4,6,8), difficulty harvesting due to forced labour (#1,4), rice confiscation (#3,4,6), rice shortage (#4), land confiscation(#1,4), forced Army conscription (#1), porter fees (#2,4,5,6,7), porters (#2,7), Mon ceasefire terms (#2), Thai repatriation plans (#5,6,8). Issues specific to railway construction: deadlines / increased demands for labour (#2,3,5,6), convict labour (#1), labour camp statistics (#1), labour of women and children (#3,5,8), beatings (#1,5,6,8), sickness (#1,3,5,6,8), collapsing embankments due to rainy season labour (#1,2,5), video cinemas (#1,5), Ministry of Railways (#1).
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports(KHRG #96-01)
Date of Publication:
1996-01-05
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
- Human Rights
- Discrimination
- Race or Ethnicity: Discrimination based on
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against specific groups
- Discrimination against the Mon
- HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English