CONTENTS: Human Rights Situations: Extrajudicial Killing • Innocent Villager Shot to Death and Burned • Innocent Chin Beaten to Death by Burmese Army Forced Labor & Extortion • Forced Labor Increases Hardship for Impoverished Villagers • Local Army Chief Orders Forced Labor and Illegal Tax from Civilians • Hundreds of Civilians Provided ?Voluntary Labor” to Construct Road • Extortion Intensified at Border Trade Route... Political Suppression • SPDC Unlawfully Destroyed House of Local Leader of National League for Democracy Party... Refugee Situations: • (RI) Malaysia: Chin Refugees on the Run... Debate: • Independence or Federalism? By Harn Yawngwe • Shan Elder Declare Independence, Chin MP Speaks • Panglong Agreement Vs Declaration of Shan Independence By Salai Za Ceu Lian... Back Cover Poem: • To Maung Lian: By Van Biak Thang