"...The human rights situation for people in rural villages of eastern Burma continues to worsen, affecting subsistence farmers and poor labourers of all ethnicities, Burman and non-Burman. This is occurring not only in the context of campaigns against resistance forces, but as an overall SPDC strategy of complete subjugation of the population in all areas whether there is fighting or not. In areas where there is no longer any resistance at all, abuses such as executions and rape tend to decrease somewhat, but extortion, looting and the systematic use of forced labour all increase until many villagers find that they can no longer survive in their traditional way of life..."