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Villagers, including elderly people and
children, were forced to labor for the building of a government middle
school without pay in Kyun Hlar village, Mudon Township, Mon State in
March 2001. They had to pay fines of 500 kyat/day if they failed to show
up. (Photos: Yoma3)
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Child forced labor in
Mudon Township, Mon State. ( See previous page)
(Photo: Yoma3) |
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Villagers forced to clear bushes along the Ye-Tavoy road
in Tenasserim Division by IB 299 in October 2000.
(Photo: HURFOM) |
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Villagers forced to take security along the Ye-Tavoy
Railroad and major roads. (Photos: Yoma3)
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Klaw Maw village,
just west of the hills in Kyauk Kyi township, Nyaunglebin District, Karen
State. The villagers are forced to break rocks and carry them in sacks to
forced labor sites where Buddhists, Animists and Christians are all being
forced to build pagodas for the local DKBA and SPDC troops. [Photos:
KHRG researcher] |
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Forced Labor on
the Ye to Ka-Zar Road, Tenasserim Division.
(Photo: HURFOM) |
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Women who have
been rounded up by SPDC troops to serve as unpaid porters in Karen State.
(Photo: KWO) |
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Villagers who
have been forced to carry supplies for LID 88 troops for a military
operation along the Three Pagoda Pass-Thanbyuzayat Road. (Photo: HURFOM) |
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Six
prisoners who were taken from prisons throughout Burma to be porters in
Karen State but escaped in early June 2000. They all described to KHRG
their extremely brutal treatment at the hands of the soldiers. In this
they are still in prison uniform. Most of them have wives and children at
home who do not know that they are still alive. [Photos: KHRG researcher] |
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A prisoner who escaped in June
2000 from used as frontline porters by LIB 706 and 708 in Dooplaya
District, Karen State. In this photo, the escaped prisoner porter points
to some of the (circled) wounds on his back and shoulders from carrying
heavy loads in bamboo baskets and from beatings. [Photos: KHRG
researcher] |
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Three former SPDC
soldiers who were jailed for deserting the army and later had to serve as
porters in late May 2000. They managed to escape in June 2000, but with
substantial wounds and scars. (Photo: FTUB) |
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A 46-year-old Karen man from
Mandalay who was 2 months from the end of a 1-year prison sentence for
possessing a stolen bicycle when he was taken from Mandalay Prison to
Karen State to be a porter for SPDC frontline troops. He escaped in Pa’an
District in early June 2000 after 10 days of heavy portering. The photo
shows wounds on his back and shoulders from carrying heavy loads in bamboo
baskets. He has a wife and 3 children back home who do not know that he is
still alive. [Photos: KHRG researcher] |
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Prisoners working at a
prison labor camp in Mon State in mid-2000.
(Source: Yoma3) |