U.N. Puts Focus On Burmese Junta's Atrocities ; Minority Karen Villagers Flee 'Forced Labor' As Military Cracks Down On Opposition
The Washington Times › October 08, 2006
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Leaning on a wooden crutch, Saw Pa Pwe, 48, a short, muscular man, hobbles on one leg from his brother's exposed platform to the raised hut where he now lives. The makeshift bamboo and plastic shelter rises more than three feet above the ground at the low point of a wet hill where 1,300 displaced villagers are starting from scratch at Ei Tu Hta refugee camp.
His wife sits silently in the midmorning heat of the rolling hills of eastern Burma. She has not spoken since a land mine maimed her farmer husband as he walked to his fields in 2002.See the full content of this document
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U.N. Puts Focus On Burmese Junta's Atrocities ; Minority Karen Villagers Flee 'Forced Labor' As Military Cracks Down On Opposition
Saw Pa Pwe is one of the many thousands of displaced villagers who spend their lives on the run, choosing to wander through the jungle rather than live under a Burmese military regime intent on crushing opposition groups such as these from the Karen ethnic minority of eastern Burma.
"Living under their control means forced labor," said Saw Pa Pwe's siste...See the full content of this document
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