Description:
News:
(1) SPDC Followers are
Convincing Pro-Government
Groups in Mon State;
(2) Villagers in Mon State are
stuck with extortion
imposed by Light Infantry
Battalion No.31;
(3) Burmese Soldiers commandeer
villagers?
motorbikes in Mon State;
(4) Police extort money from
arrested young people in
the Mon village;
(5) SPDC Followers Earn Illegal
Money with Different
Method in Mon State;
(6) Villagers in Mudon
Township are being
forced to grow castor-oil
plants...
Commentary:
International Community
Must Ensure for Democratization
in Burma...
Personal Accounts:
Meeting with newly
arrived IDP family...
Report:
Endless Abuses and the
Creation of Poverty in
Southern Mon State:- I. Summary:
This report focuses on the updated situation about the ongoing Human Rights abuses committed by the
SPDC and its armed forces, troops of Burmese Army, that creates the poverty and unsustainable life of the
rural civilians in southern Mon State. Most of the abuses which described in this report were always happening
in the rural areas under the control of this ruling SPDC. The major abuses are which covered in this report
are forced relocation, forced labour, looting, confiscation of land and properties which artificially create
poverty and hunger to population in rural areas of southern Mon State; II. Geographical analysis on Southern Mon State; III. Looting by the Burmese battalions; IV. Torture and inhumane treatment; V. On going abuses: Movement restriction and relocation; VI. Confiscation/ destruction of property/Taxation; VII. Population displacement.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of Publication:
2007-08-31
Date of entry:
2007-09-24
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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