"Following are the direct translations of SLORC typed and handwritten orders sent to Karen villages in Taungoo District in mid-1995. At that time SLORC was intensifying its "Four Cuts" program in the area, ordering villages to move and burning villages and food supplies in order to cut off all possibility of civilian support for the few Karen resistance forces still remaining in the area. This campaign is still continuing - since January 1996 many more villages have been ordered to move to Army labour camps under threat of death, the flow of goods from Taungoo to villages in the area has been cut off, and hundreds of villagers have been taken as porters and other forced labour (see related KHRG reports). The written orders being used right now are not yet available, but they are doubtless almost identical to those in this report. The following orders are just a small sample of the hundreds issued in the area. All of these orders were signed by SLORC Army (Tatmadaw) officers, and most of the orders bear the rubber stamps of the issuing military unit. Many of them were copied and sent to many villages. Photocopies of the original orders (with certain details such as village names blacked out) are available on request..."