TABLE OF CONTENTS:- FORCED LABOR: * SPDC Authority Forced Hundreds Of Local Villagers To Repair India-Burma Border Trade Road; * Villagers Forced To Construct Army Camp; * Villagers Forced As Porters; * SPDC Force Villagers To Search For A Lost Gun... CONSCRIPTION: * SPDC Conscripted Villagers For Militia Training, Collect Ration And Money From Civilians; * 200 Local Civilians Trains For Militia... ARBITRARY ORDERS, ROBBERY OF SPDC, AND POWER ABUSE: * VPDC Chairman Got 6 Months Imprisonment For Failing To Attend The Meeting; * Police Threaten 2 Merchant Women And Demand 20,000 Kyats; * SPDC Troops Confiscate 1,000,000 Kyats And Four Cattle From Traders; * Chin Woman Forced To Abort Her Pregnancy By A Lieutenant Commander... REFUGEE: * Chin Asylum Seekers From Burma Detained In Malaysia Immigration Raid; * Update On Arrests Of Chins In Malaysia; * Chin Asylum Seeker Died; * Chin Asylum Seekers Held Captive By Thai Agents; * Mizoram Police Arrest 30 Illegal Burmese Migrants... LETTER & PRESS RELEASE: * CHRO Welcomes Chin Waiver; * The Department Of State Decides Material Support Inapplicable To Chin Refugees From Burma; * An Open Letter To Young Mizo Association (YMA); * Proposed Measures To Be Taken By The YMA Against Foreigners And Others Staying Illegally... NEWS & EVENTS: * Self-Decision Making Training For Women Concluded; * Chin Youth Conference Successfully Concluded; * Rights Group Praises US For Allowing Myanmar 'S Chin Refugees; * Rice Exempts Chin Refugees For US Resettlement, Welcomed By CHRO... CRITICAL ISSUE: * The Threat Of HIV/AIDS Among Chin People (By Piang Lilian)... BACK COVER POEM: * A Land Abandoned (By Van Biak Thang)