Table of Contents: EDITORIAL... * A Message from CHRO Executive Director... EXTORTION & ARBITRARY MEASURES: * Soldiers Extort Money from Traders... * Cross-border Traders Extorted 600,000 Kyats... * Arbitrary Measures Blamed for Declining Crop Yields... * Funds Collected to Support Militias... * Money Collected from Residents of Paletwa Town... * Residents Pay Municipal Tax without Getting Service... * Residents Ordered to Build Street Drainage..... THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: * Child Worker Physically Abused by Employer... * Boy Escaped to India to Avoid Forcible Recruitment..... FORCED LABOR & CORRUPTION: * Corruption Leads to Civlian Forced Labor... * Authorities Refuse to Accept Donations in Fear of Corruption Exposure... * Suspicious Monk Confiscate Public Owned Pool for Personal Profits..... FOOD CRISIS IN CHINLAND: * Hunger Forced Man, Nephew to India in Search of Food... * Chin Food Crisis Worsened By locusts and Unusual Wind..... PERSONAL SECURITY: * Violent Crime on the Rise due to Lax Law Enforcement in Capital... * Burmese Army Allow Indian Rebels to Commit Violations in Chin State..... STATUS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS: Political Prisoners Mistreated in Kalay Prison..... FREEDOM OF RELIGION: * Church Construction Materials Storage Destroyed..... ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT 2009