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NEWS NOTES: DEATH BY WAY OF SLO



Subject: NEWS NOTES: DEATH  BY  WAY  OF  SLORC

In the section of the report covering Karen State, a woman
               reported finding the body of her 12-year-old niece, who
had
               a gunshot entering her vagina and exiting at her chin. 

               It said the girl was alleged to have been raped by a
major,
               then managed to escape, was recaptured, raped again, and
               shot. The major paid her family a sack of rice, a measure
of
               sugar, a tin of condensed milk and 100 kyat (about 30
U.S.
               cents) in compensation. 

               Another woman described how troops beheaded her brother
               after accusing him of passing information to the Karen
               National Union insurgents and beating him unconscious. 

               In another case, the report said, a Karen widow saw her
son
               shot dead by soldiers when he tried to stop them beating
               her.