News: (1) Villagers are spread thin after meeting uncompensated labor demands... (2) No end in sight after 4 years of obligatory security detail by villagers..... Commentary: Outraged but not surprised..... Media release: Systemic human rights violations along 180-mile gas pipeline in southern Burma, says new report..... Personal: Meeting with child labors from Southern Mon State..... Report: ?I Will Never Go Back:” Human Rights Abuses in Mon State and Tenasserim Division:- Introduction; Arbitrary Executions; Destruction of Civilians? Houses and Properties; Map of the area documented in the report; Plundering and Looting of Food Supplies; Using Villagers in Forced Porter Service; Causing Great Economic Hardship and Food Crisis; Voices from the Victims Regarding the Loss of their Homes; Conclusion: "The individual abuses carried out in the 4 square mile area surrounding Paukpinkwin are representative of the broader abuses committed by the Burmese army within the wider region of South Mon State and Northern Tenasserim Division. As families continue to flee, abuses by Burmese army and, on a much smaller scale, insurgent forces, are carried out in increasingly depleted communities. In one extreme example, the 2 villages of Baraung and Amae have been completely relocated under the Burmese army?s counter-insurgency policy, carried out in July 2006 and November 2008 respectively. HURFOM research indicates that 65% of households in Paukpinkwin have been forced to relocate in the last 10 years, and continued instances of abuse by the Burmese Army threaten to condemn Paukpinkwin and the surrounding area to a similar fate of Baraung and Amae. But for many villagers, some who are elderly or have lived in the area for generations, leaving is an arduous and sometimes impossible task. They are thus trapped, unable to leave, but also unable to live. These families will remain the fodder for future human rights violations as long as the process of militarization continues."