Rhododendron News, Volume X. No. I. January-February 2007

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:- FORCED LABOUR & PORTER: • SPDC Soldiers Target Chin Women For Porter • Chin Christian Women Compel To Do Manual Works At Buddhist Monastery • SPDC Used Child Labor In Road Construction • Civilians Force To Work At Army Camp • SPDC Summoned 7 Villages For Road Construction • SPDC Forced 100 Villagers To Build Military Camp • Villagers Forced To Work At Army Own Tea Plantation Farm • SPDC Forced Civilian For Road Repair • Villagers Compel To Fence Army Camp In Dar-Lin • SPDC Soldiers Continue To Use Villagers As Porter • Local Villagers Compel To Serve As Guide For Burma Army • SPDC Solders Use Porter... ARBITRARY ORDERS & POWER ABUSE: • Provide Ration Or Your Village Will Be Burnt • Cultivate Jatropha Plant Or Leave The Village • SPDC Soldiers Collect Ration From Villagers • Matupi Town Residents Compel To Watch Football Match • Dar-Lin Villagers Have To Pay For Entertaining The Army Officer • Villagers Must Buy Jatropha Seeds • The SPDC Fined 1,700,000/- Kyats From 5 Cattle Traders • SPDC Soldiers Extort 400,000/- Kyats From Cattle Traders • Village Headmen Bear The Burden Of Militia Training • SPDC Soldiers Looted From A Farmer • A Chin Girl Sent Home And Denied For Health Training For Wearing Longpant • 2 SPDC Police Refused To Pay Their Bus Fare • Internally Displaced In The National Capital • SPDC Authority Extort Money From Travellers • SPDC Police Looted From Female Trader • Burmese Soldier Steal Chicken From Villager... REFUGEE: • Detained Refugees Face Poor Conditions and Possible Caning • Chin Refugee Fell To His Death • Malaysia Detains 176 Suspected Illegal Immigrants From Myanmar... LOBBY & ADVOCACY: • Chin and Kachin Delegation Holds Milestone Meeting with UK Foreign Office Minister • Activists Increase Pressure as EU Looks to Review Common Position on Burma • Burma?s Persecuted Christians Plea Case In Highest U.S. Hearings • A Chin Girl Speaks at UN about Gender Violence in Burma PRESS RELEASE • CHRO Concerned by Remarks of Malaysia?s Home Affairs Minister • CHRO Welcomes the Publication of ?Carrying the Cross”... MILESTONE NEWS & EVENTS: • ENC General Secretary Dr. Lian Hmung Sakhong awarded the 2007 Martin Luther King Prize in Sweden • A Struggle To Be An Authentic Human Being Again.

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Chin Human Rights Organization

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2007-02-00

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2007-03-17

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English

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