Description:
"March-October 92, Nyaunglebin District. Karen men, women, children: Torture; Violence against Women; rape: arbitrary detention; extortion; ransoming; rape and subsequent death of a 7-year old girl; economic catastrophe caused by economic oppression; pillaging (destruction of crops and livestock); malnourished children; high child mortality; forced relocation; Tatmadaw impounds and controls distribution of rice; army defectors; persecution of the Karen Women's Organisation; looting; killing; forced labour incl. portering; SLORC spies. June-October 93, Dooplaya District: Burning, destruction of village, church and monastery; torture and killing of village headman; looting; inhuman treatment; arbitrary detention; extortion; forced portering; ransoming; Use of villagers as a shield. Reprisals; forced labour for road- and bridge-building. List of villages pressed into forced labour; forced marriage..."
_ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced_
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports
Date of Publication:
1993-11-15
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Language:
English
