Convict Porters: The Brutal Abuse of Prisoners on Burma?s Frontlines

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The Brutal Abuse of Prisoners on Burma?s Frontlines. Based on KHRG interviews with prison convicts from all over Burma who have escaped forced labour for SPDC troops, this report tells the story of their arrest, sentencing, life in the prisons and the increasing use of convicts as porters by Burma?s military junta. Documents the arbitrary arrest and sentencing of people to long jail terms for petty offences, the brutal and inhuman conditions in the prisons, and the even more brutal abuse and killings of convicts who are forced to go into combat situations with the military - in many cases after their sentences should have expired. This report also includes an Annex of Interviews.

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Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #2000-060)

Date of Publication: 

2000-12-20

Date of entry: 

2003-06-03

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English

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