Letters from the Irrawaddy Delta

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"91-93. Karen men, women, children: On 4 Oct 91 3000 people were jailed. 200 died. Farms were confiscated; 1000 urban people were jailed. Large-scale killings; rape; looting; forced labour. Religious intolerance: arbitrary detention (pastors jailed, Christians forced to follow Buddhist rites and prohibited from studying Gospel); forced conscription, including children; burning of villages; inhuman treatmentin the course of forced labour; looting; strafing of villages from the air; Mass killings; killing of headman; extortion; child malnutrition; disappearances..."

Source/publisher: 

Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports

Date of Publication: 

1993-12-06

Date of entry: 

2003-06-03

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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