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I Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions 1.1. Background 1.2. Death in Custody 1.3. SLORC Pressures Parents and Kills Students 1.4. List of Incidents Arbitrary Detention and Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 2.1. Background 2.2. SLORC Latest Political Detainees 2.3. Situation of Dr Ma Thida 2.4. Student Put in Solitary Confinement 2.5. Contribution to Political Prisoners Confiscated 2.5.1. Others Died in the Prisons 2.5.2. Others not Presented by SLORC to the Special Rapporteur 2.6. List of Incidents Rights of Child 3.1. Background 3.2. Kidnap of Schoolchildren for SLORC Army Recruitment Drives 3.3. Forced Recruitment of Ethnic Child 3.4. Impact of Tourism 3.5. Child Slavery 3.6. List of Incidents Forced Labour and Slavery 4.1. Background 4.2. Types of Portering 4.2.1. Operations Porters 4.2.2. Permanent Porters 4.2.3. Emergency Porters 4.2.4. Porters of Opportunity 4.2.5. Portering as Punishment 4.2.6. Convict Porters 4.2.7. Paid Porters 4.2.8. Porters in Battle 4.2.9. Women, Children and the Elderly 4.2.10. Porter Fees and Bribes 4.2.11. Portering for Opposition Groups 4.2.12. Institutionalising of Portering under SLORC 4.3. Forced Portering 4.4. Slavery in the South 4.5. Infrastructure Project in Southern Burma 4.6. Ye-Tavoy Rail-Line Construction 4.6.1. SLORC Conscripts Labourers 4.6.2. Displacement of Villages 4.6.3. Forced Labour Increases; Internment Camps, Convict Labour, Fines and Fees 4.6.4. Non-Payment of Labourers by SLORC

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4.6.5. SLORC Orders 4.6.6. SLORC Prefers and Profits from Free Manual Labour 4.6.7. Local Army Units Pilfer from Government 4.7. Forced Labour for Security of Gas Pipeline 4.7.1. Facts about the Gas Pipeline 4.7.2. Militarisation in Tenasserim Division 4.8. Work for the State or Live in the Collective Villages 4.9. Forced Recruitment 4.10. Forced Labour in the West 4.11. Military Recruitment 4.12. Confiscation of Forced Labour 4.13. Forced Farming in Arakan 4.14. Pakokku-Gangaw-Kalemyo Railway 4.15. Hydro Power and Other Projects in Kalemyo 4.16. Forced Labour in Kuki Villages 4.17. Forced Labour in the Name of Development 4.18. Construction of Artillery Corps and Dam in Monywa 4.19. Reservoir in Seikphyu 4.20. Irrigation in Central Burma 4.21. Forced Recruitment in Chin State 4.22. Forced Labour in the North 4.23. Forced Labour for Construction of Naval Base 4.24. Aung Ban-Loikaw Railway 4.25. Shwenyaung-Namsang Railway 4.25.1. Construction in Wan Yin 4.25.2. Construction in Namsang 4.26. Bawgali-Bu Sah Kee Road Construction 4.27. Forced Labour in Pegu 4.28. List of Incidents Forced Relocation and Internally Displaced Persons 5.1. Background 5.2. Displaced After the Fall of Manerplaw 5.3. Food As a Tool of Forced Relocation 5.4. Displaced in the Name of Development Programme 5.5. Clearing the Way for Gas Pipeline 5.6. Torture Leads to Displacement 5.7. Militarisation Leads to Forced Labour, Execution and Displacement 5.8. Visit Myanmar Year lead to Displacement 5.9. Recent Forced Relocation in Tenasserim Division 5.10. List of Incidents Deprivation of Livelihood 6.1. Serve for the Army or Punished 6.2. Situation in Chin State 6.3. SLORCs Offer of Brotherhood to the Chin 6.4. Life in Sagaing Division 6.5. Life in Arakan State 6.6. Life in Irrawaddy Division

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6.7. Life in Magwe Division 6.8. Situation in Mong Hsu Gem land 6.9. Student Sports Festival in Loikaw 6.10. Life in Eastern Pegu Division and Karen State 6.11. Life along the Coast 6.11.2 Paddy Buying Centre 6.11.2 Forced Cultivation 6.11.3 Illegal Rice Mills 6.11.4 Sell More Crops to the State 6.11.5 Army Farm 6.11.6 Compensation 6.11.7 Exploitation 6.11.8 Check-point Fee 6.11.9 Collect More 6.11.10 Life of Fishermen 6.11.11 Tax for upgrading Tavoy College 6.11.12 Taxation for Student Sports Festival 1996 6.12. List of Incident Rights of Minorities 7.1. Ethnic People on Display for Tourists in SLORC Zoos 7.2. Discrimination against Minorities Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment or Punishment 8.1. Background 8.2. List of Incidents Freedom of Belief: Discrimination Against the Right to Practice Religion and Intolerance 9.1. Background 9.2. Religious Conflict and the Rise of DKBA 9.3. Christian Nagas Forced by SLORC to Adopt Buddhism 9.4. Naga Baptist Council 9.5 Religious Persecution of Christian Chins 9.6. Religious Persecution and Conversion 9.7. Observance of Religious Rites Forbidden for Forced Labourers 9.8. Religious Freedom of Expression and Censorship 9.9 Oppressive Measures on the Buddhist Monks 9.10. Insult on Religion 9.11. Religious Persecution by SLORC/DKBA Freedom of Opinion and Expression 10.1. A Brief Background of SLORC-Controlled Media 10.2. Profile: The Voices The Regime Tried To Silence 10.3. Burmese Basket 10.4. Censorship on Jokes 10.5. Inked Over; Ripped Out 10.6. Everybody is Under Watch 10.7. Diamond Jubilee under Tight Security 10.8. Power 54

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10.9. Forced Rally for USDA 10.10. List of Incidents Freedom of Assembly and Association 11.1. Still under Restriction 11.2. Curfew Imposed Freedom of Movement 12.1. List of Incidents Abuse of Women 13.1. Background 13.2. Repeated Gun-Point Rape by Soldier in City 13.3. Soldiers Rape at Will in Countryside 13.4. Institutionalised Rape and Slavery by Military 13.5. List of Incidents The Refugees Situation and Forced Repatriation 14.1. Refugees in the West 14.2. Recent Refugee Influx into India 14.3. Chief Justice Systematically Executed by Indians 14.4. Rohingya Repatriation 14.5. Karen Refugee Movements 14.6. Attacks on Refugee Camps 14.6.1. Manerplaw area 14.6.2. Mae Paw Mu Hta/Huai Heng Camp 14.6.3. Ka Htee Hta Camp 14.6.4. U Da Hta Camp 14.6.5. Ber Lu Ko 14.6.6. Baw Noh (Mae Ta Waw) Camp 14.6.7. Mae Salit (Tala Thaw, Gray Hta) Camp 14.6.8. Sho Klo Camp 14.6.9. Mae La (Beh Klaw) Camp 14.6.10. Huay Bone (Don Pa Klang) Camp 14.6.11. Huay Kalok (Wan Kha) Camp 14.6.12. Mae Ra Ma Luang (Mae Ra Mu Klo) Camp 14.6.13. Kamaw Lay Ko Camp 14.7. In Search of a Heaven 14.8. New Influx of Karenni Refugee 14.9. BPP Orders for Repatriation of New Arrivals 14.10. Enforcing Immigration Act: Crackdown on Refugees and Illegal Immigrants 14.11. More Arrests on Burmese Asylum-seekers 14.12. Life in IDC of Thailand 14.13. Monks Disrobed 14.14. No Longer Assistance for Burmese 14.15. The Plight of Burmese Students in SDC 14.16. Chronological Report of the Safe Area 14.16.1. Incidents Taken Place 14.17. Cheap Labourer or Illegal Workers 14.18. List of Incidents

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