Comments on the recent negotiations between the SPDC and the National League for Democracy and their relation to ethnic issues and the lives of ordinary people in Burma. Also looks at the state of forced labour, the SPDC?s reaction to pressure by the International Labour Organisation, and the increasingly systematic use of convict labour, in the light of evidence recently gathered and reported by KHRG. Introduces a new KHRG report on the crumbling state of the SPDC Army through the eyes of its soldiers, and other recent KHRG releases.