"The following information from several Karen provinces has been received in reports from various offices at the district level. Their reports make it very clear that the SLORC?s claim that it had suspended the offensive against the Karen people in April was utterly false. This report is by no means complete. De Nay Cha, Doo Yaw, Dta Greh, Neh Bu, Hlaing Bwe Townships; Doothatu (Thaton), Kler Lu Htoo) (Nyaunglebin), Taw Oo (Taungoo), Mudraw (Papun) Provinces: forced portering, forced labour in army camps; ill treatment (death after porter duty); economic oppression (expropriation of animals, food, land confiscation etc); shelling of villages not providing; threats of reprisals against villagers if there is fighting in the area; kidnapping and ransoming of elderly villagers; extortion (lists of payments by villagers) leading to abandonment of villages, internal displacement and refugee flows; forced relocation (lists of relocated villages)..." ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced