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Subject: SPECIAL REPORT - The Plight of Burma's Women Refugees in India

SPECIAL REPORT - The Plight of Burma's Women Refugees in India

The Rangoon Post - U.S.A. / Japan
4 June, 1999

  Thousands of refugees from western and north-western Burma still
remain in terribly poor conditions through-out the Chittagong Hills. 
Many women are finding jobs as live-in maids, nanies etc.  These jobs
have no only found them income, but also beatings, rapes, and hundreds
of un-wanted pregnancies.   

   Many can not report the rapes and beatings fearing both that they
will loose their job, but many are illegal and would likely be deported
back to Burma where they could be put into slave labor, robbed or raped
by the military SPDC forces.

   What do these people do?  Who will help them.  For now, no one can
help ... or will help in India.