Pa'an District, Central Karen State The article is the direct translations of some written orders sent from SLORC Army units to Karen villages in southern Pa?an District of central Karen State, southeastern Burma. Though SLORC (State Law & Order Restoration Council) has now changed its name to SPDC (State Peace & Development Council), these orders were issued shortly before the name change. They include demands for villagers to do forced labour as porters and messengers, at Army camps and on the road from Nabu to Pa?an, as well as demands for food, building materials, and extortion money. Some are simply a summons for village elders to attend ‘meetings? - these meetings at army camps are to dictate forced labour and extortion payment demands, and even though the Camp may be 3 to 5 miles away a 60-year-old elder is expected to drop everything and walk there. As a result, many village elders fail to attend them, which only leads to further threats of ‘action? against the elders and the village. At the end of this report we have also included the translation of a letter from a villager in central Pa?an District to a KHRG human rights monitor, describing a meeting between SLORC officials and Village-level LORC representatives... "