Myanmar army `targets civilians' - Democratic Underground

dArKeR

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Thu Jun-09-05 11:43 PM
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Myanmar army `targets civilians'

Myanmar's army continues to target civilians while fighting ethnic Karen rebels, with extrajudicial killings and forcible displacements of some people up to 100 times in their lives, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
Sexual violence, forced labor and looting of villages are common practice for an "unreformed and unaccountable" Myanmar army, US-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report.

Yangon also keeps conscripting villages, including children, despite repeated denials, the report said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/10/2003258704

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funflower

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Fri Jun-10-05 12:05 AM
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1. Myanmar is one of those places most Americans have never heard of.

:cry:

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Fri Jun-10-05 12:23 AM
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2. I was in Myanmar last year,

And the Junta government is so proletarian that you cannot access email. No access to Yahoo! or MSN. I was fortunate in that I also have a mac account so I could email my friends that way. For some reason (probably stupidity) the Junta does not know mac accounts exist.

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