Toungoo District: Information Update

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"An update on the situation of villagers in the hills of Toungoo District, where the SPDC has mounted no new offensives but has sent in units of their ?Guerrilla Retaliation? execution squads to ?clear? the villages of suspected KNU sympathisers. Forced labour, especially as porters, continued right through the time of the International Labour Organisation?s visit to Burma in September-October, and the SPDC is also using forced labour to develop Than Daung Gyi for international tourists. As the SPDC repeatedly relocates villages to get more forced labour for road work and portering, people are fleeing into the hills to hide despite the dangers and the desperate lack of food..."

Source/publisher: 

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG Information Update #2002-U1)

Date of Publication: 

2002-01-30

Date of entry: 

2003-06-03

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English

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