Forced Labor Still Exist

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Maungdaw, March 15: "The villagers of Maungdaw south of Arakan State have been engaged in forced labor at Nakapa (Border Security Force) Camp. According to an elder, the villagers of Alay Sankyaw and Myint Hlut village tracts of Maungdaw south have been engaged in forced labor at Nakapa camp since 27th February 2005. The villagers have to plough the farmland and to grow various vegetables, to construc buildings of the camps, to carry wood from the forest to bake bricks of building, to clean up the camp compounds everyday, and to repair the damaged roads and street nearby the camps, the elder man further added..."

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Kaladan News

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2005-03-15

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2005-03-23

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