BURMA/UN (r)

[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

So, its getting worse and worse each year? How can it possibly get any
worse, more victims, more murders, rapes, torture? More and more
reports. Where is the bottom line? When is worse no better and worse
enough? Where is zero tolerance now, at the UN Club of dictators? 

BurmaWatch@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Burma's human rights slammed in UN report
> ABC 10/28/99
> A United Nations report says the repression of human rights in Burma is
> worsening, alleging that the military regime condones murder, rape and forced
> labour.
> 
> The report will be submitted to the human rights committee of the UN General
> Assembly next week.
> 
> It alleged that children as young as eight were used as unpaid labourers and
> porters who were forced to work for the military were often unfed and tied to
> a yoke at night.
> 
> The report was prepared by Rajsoomer Lallah, the special rapporteur of the
> Commission on Human Rights.
> 
> It referred to "summary executions, rape, torture, ill treatment during
> forced labour" and other abuses of ethnic minorities, in particular in Shan
> and Karen states on Burma's eastern border with Thailand.