FINDINGS: "The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the military junta that governs Burma, remains one of the world?s worst human rights violators. The SPDC severely restricts religious practice, monitors the activity of all religious organizations, and perpetrates violence against religious leaders and communities, particularly in ethnic minority areas. In the past year, the SPDC has engaged in severe violations of the freedom of religion and belief including: the arrest, mistreatment, and harassment of Buddhist monks who participated in peaceful demonstrations in 2007 or are suspected of anti-government activity; the severe repression and forced relocation of the Rohingya Muslim minority; the banning of independent Protestant ―house church‖ activities; and the abuses, including forced labor, relocations, and destruction of religious sites, against ethnic minority Protestants..."