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Human Rights Watch Report Excerpts



Human Rights Watch Report Excerpts

The annual Human Rights Watch report cites abuses in countries around
the world. Some of its conclusions:

AFGHANISTAN - Afghanistan remained ``one of the world's most intractable
human rights disasters,'' with fighting between
the dominant Taliban and opposition forces. The ultraconservative
Islamic Taliban conducted many public executions and
established a pattern of repression of women on religious grounds.

BURMA - More than 1,000 people were imprisoned during the year in the
standoff between opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi and the military rulers in a country that continued to be ``one
of the world's pariah states.''

CHINA - Despite some ``encouraging developments'' with greater freedom
to debate allowed among intellectuals on political
and economic reform, China maintained generally strict controls on
expression, association and assembly, with political and
religious dissidents facing arrest and detention. Repression continued
in Tibet.