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Myanmar abuses reported (r)



Houston Chronicle (Houston, Texas, USA)
March 16, 1999
Page 12A

Myanmar abuses reported

GENEVA - Forced labor, beatings, torture and confiscation of land are
widespread in Myanmar and abuses are getting worse, a United Nations
investigator said in a report released Monday.

In his report to the annual session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission,
Rajsoomer Lallah said the military government of Myanmar, also known as Burma,
was continuing to intimidate its citizens and block free association and
expression.

He said harrassment and arrests of members of the opposition National League
for Democracy by the military regime had been going on since 1995.  In
September, more than 650 of the opposition party's members were arrested
following attempts to convene a parliament in accordance with the results of
the 1990 general election, which the party won overwhelmingly.