Photos of Forced Labor 


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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)

 

Child forced labor in Mudon Township, Mon State. ( See previous page)
(Photo: Yoma3)

Villagers forced to clear bushes along the Ye-Tavoy road in Tenasserim Division by IB 299 in October 2000. (Photo: HURFOM)

Villagers forced to take security along the Ye-Tavoy Railroad and major roads. (Photos: Yoma3)

 

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]
Forced Labor on the Ye to Ka-Zar Road, Tenasserim Division. 
(Photo: HURFOM)
Women who have been rounded up by SPDC troops to serve as unpaid porters in Karen State. (Photo: KWO)
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)
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]
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]
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)
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]
Prisoners working at a prison labor camp in Mon State in mid-2000.
(Source: Yoma3)

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