"Rhododendron News" Volume IX. No. I. January-February 2006

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Table of Contents: Human Rights Situations in Chinland. Summary Execution, Torture & Arbitrary Detention: • A 17 Year-Old Boy Summarily Executed by Burmese Troop • Relative of Chin Rebel Victim of Chronic Abuse, Torture & Extortion • Villager Severely Tortured for Alleged Sympathy to Rebels, Six Others in Army Custody • Alleged Rebel Sympathizers Tortured by SPDC troops • Two High School Students Arbitrarily Detained for Suspected Ties to Rebels... Forced Labor & Extortion: • 45 Civilians Forced as Porters • More than 200 Civilians Forced to Work in Road Construction • SPDC Forced Villagers to Clear over 600 Acres of Forested Land for Tea Plantation • Advance Christmas Celebration Disrupted by Forced Labor Conscription • Burmese Police Illegally Extort Money from a Woman Trader • SPDC Troops Extort Money from Traders • Villagers Forced to Contribute Tin Roofing Plates to Build Army Barrack • Burmese Soldiers Robbed Chin Women Traders of over Half a Million Kyats • SPDC Collecting Forced Donations to Support Disabled Army Veterans • SPDC Forcibly Collects ‘Donation?... National Convention: • Mass-Signing? Event Held in Support of the National Convention... International Campaign: • Canada Should Work More Aggressively to Affect Positive Change in Burma (Brief Submitted by CHRO to Canadian Foreign Affairs)... Opinion: • Rethinking a Parliamentary-Federal Proposal for Burma By Salai Za Uk Ling... Back Cover Poem: • Unity against Colony (Chin National Day) By Van Biak Thang.

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Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)

Date of Publication: 

2006-02-00

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2006-09-02

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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