"...The government's human rights record worsened during the year, and the government continued to commit numerous serious abuses. The following human rights abuses were reported: * abridgement of the right to change the government * extrajudicial killings, including custodial deaths * disappearances * rape, torture, and beatings of prisoners and detainees * arbitrary arrest without appeal * politically motivated arrests and detentions * incommunicado detention * continued house arrest of National League for Democracy (NLD) General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD Vice * Chairman U Tin Oo, and the continued closure of all NLD offices, except the Rangoon headquarters * imprisonment of members of the United Nationalities Alliance, including Hkun Htun Oo and Sai Nyunt Lwin, both leaders of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy * infringement on citizens' right to privacy * forcible relocation and confiscation of land and property * restriction of freedom of speech, press, assembly, association and movement * restriction of freedom of religion * discrimination and harassment against Muslims * restrictions on domestic human rights organizations and a failure to cooperate with international human rights organizations * violence and societal discrimination against women * forced recruitment of child soldiers * discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities * trafficking in persons, particularly of women and girls for the purpose of prostitution and as involuntary wives restrictions on worker rights * forced labor (including against children), chiefly in support of military garrisons and operations in ethnic minority regions..."