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Burma's human rights slammed in UN report 
ABC 10/28/99
A United Nations report says the repression of human rights in Burma is 
worsening, alleging that the military regime condones murder, rape and forced 
labour. 

The report will be submitted to the human rights committee of the UN General 
Assembly next week. 

It alleged that children as young as eight were used as unpaid labourers and 
porters who were forced to work for the military were often unfed and tied to 
a yoke at night.

The report was prepared by Rajsoomer Lallah, the special rapporteur of the 
Commission on Human Rights.
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It referred to "summary executions, rape, torture, ill treatment during 
forced labour" and other abuses of ethnic minorities, in particular in Shan 
and Karen states on Burma's eastern border with Thailand.