"Rhododendron News" Volume XI, No. III. May-June 2008

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CONTENTS:- SITUATIONS IN CHINLAND: * Arrested Campaigners Tortured * Villagers Forced to Catch Fish from Conservation Area * Corruption Causes Rapid Environmental Destruction * Hunger Victims Taxed for Transporting Rice * Forced Labour, Extortion Fuels Hunger * Civilians Forced to Pay for Referendum Costs * Over 30 Millions Kyats to be Collected from Chin Public * School Teacher Raped by SPDC Cabinet Minister * Villagers Forced to Feed Burmese Soldiers Amidst Looming Starvation * Rice-mill Owners Unfairly Taxed * People Faced Junta?s Post-Referendum Reprisals... REFUGEE SITUATIONS: * Teenaged Refugee Girl Abducted in New Delhi * Tensions Rise As More Chin Refugees Arrested In Malaysia... CAMPAIGN & ADVOCACY: * Chin Delegation Visited UK * Chin Delegates To Attend Conference At Liverpool Hope University * Ethnic Women From Burma Met UK Prime Minister... STATEMENTS AND PRESS RELEASES: * BURMA: Allow Unhindered International Humanitarian Aid and Rescue Operations * More Chin People Voted "No" Amidst Threats and Intimidation * Update: Threat, Intimidation and Manipulation Shroud Burma?s Referendum... FACTS & ARGUMENTS: - R2P Concept and Burma... NEWS & EVENTS: - KNU Chairman Passed Away... BACK COVER POEM: Cries From The Chin Jungle....N.B. The CHRO website mistakenly ascribes this issue to Vol. XII.

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Chin Human Rights Organization

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2008-06-00

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2009-01-05

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English

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