"For those villagers living under the control of SPDC and DKBA forces in Pa?an District, certain forms of forced labour have now become routine. Such ?routine? forced labour includes: cultivation of rainy season and dry season rice crops on fields owned by DKBA officers, maintaining rubber plantations, roadside clearance of forest overgrowth following the rainy season, portering military supplies out to soldiers operating at ?frontline? army camps, collecting, preparing and delivering bamboo and thatch for use in the repair and construction of the region?s many army camps, and temporarily serving as camp-based messengers. Combined, these various forms of forced labour significantly cut into crucial time villagers need for their own agricultural and other livelihoods activities. This report looks at cases of forced labour from July to September 2008 and includes a short video of recent forced labour in Pa?an District..."