Description:
TABLE OF CONTENTS:-
EDITORIAL:
* Bottom Line: Rights Conditions Unlikely to Improve Post Elections.....
HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS:
ARBITRARY MEASURES:
* Residents Facing Shortage of Drinking Water due to Privatization...
* Arbitrary Tax Exacted from House Owners...
* Christian Religious institutions Face Heavy Tax Increase...
* Authorities Collect Funds for Water Supply Project...
* Forestry Department Taxes Firewood Use...* Increased Tolls Cause Fare Hike...
* Patients Compelled to Pay for Test on Prospective Blood Donors...
* Municipal Officers Collect Money for Garbage Removal, But Garbage Remains...
* Authorities Refuse to Purchase Jatropha Seeds from Villagers as Promised...
* SPDC Slashes the Salary of Civil Servants in Chin State...
* Revenue Dept. Demand Exploitative Sums from People Going Abroad...
* Soldiers Extort from Oil Workers.....
FORCED LABOR:
* 40 Villages Ordered to Perform Forced Labor...
* SPDC Force Civilians to Perform Night Sentry Duty...
* Civilians Face Hardships Due to Forced Sentry Duty...
* Forced Labor and Portering Continues in Chin State...
* Civilians Forced to Provide Money and Build Houses for Government Servants.....
MILITIA CONSCRIPTION:
* Hundreds of Chin Youths Conscripted into Militia Service...
* Youths Flee as Militia Conscription Drive Intensifies...
* Locals Trained to Shoot in Chin State...
* Militia Trainees Prohibited Travels.....
FOOD CRISIS IN CHINLAND:
* Shortage of Drugs in Medical Facilities Results in Eight Deaths...
* Singers Ready for Chin Food Aid Concerts in America.....
DRUG:
* Released Prisoners Rehabilitated? in Poppy Farms...
* Junta-Approved Poppy Cultivation in Tonzan Township...
Source/publisher:
Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)
Date of Publication:
2009-10-00
Date of entry:
2010-02-10
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
- Human Rights
- Discrimination
- Race or Ethnicity: Discrimination based on
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against specific groups
- Discrimination against the Chin (Zo)
- Discrimination agains the Chin (Zo) magazines
- "Rhododendron News" ("Rhododendron" or "Rhododendron publication") -- magazine of the Chin Human Rights Organization.
Language:
English