Geographical Location of Burma/Myanmar; Country Report; Historical Background; 1988: Prospects for Re-emerging of Democracy; Democracy?s Light Begins to Dim; National Council of the Union of Burma; I. Rule of Law, or ?Law and Order??; II. Unconstructive SPDC?s Stance on Regional Cooperation; III. Militarization of Burma and Regional Instability: A Military Build-up Bursting at Its Seams; IV. Genocidal Policies and Practices of the Military Regime; V. Arrest, Arbitrary Detention, and Disappearance; VI. Torture and Extrajudicial Killings; VII. Political Prisoners and Former Political Prisoners; VIII. Forced Labour and Forced Relocation; IX. The Rights of the Child; X. Women?s Rights and Realities; XI. Violence Against Women: Soldiers Licensed to Rape; XII. Refugees and Migrants: Mass Exodus from an Intolerable Situation; XIII. Inhuman Living Condition: Economic Mismanagement; XIV. Illegal Drug Industry: Bane of the International Community; XV. HIV Epidemic: Crisis on the Horizon.