HURFOM Human Rights Report No. 6/95 (August 1995)

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Population Displacement in Tavoy District: Effects of Railway and Gas pipeline Constructions; Corruption related to construction; Interviews recounting: killings, including of children; rape; forced labour; destruction of local communities; tax and rice extortion; torture of elders; economic oppression resulting in food shortages and death of children; abandonment of villages; corruption; torture, including of women and village headmen; looting; brutal treatment of porters, including women; displacement/forced migration.

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Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)

Date of Publication: 

1995-08-16

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2003-06-03

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English

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