Facts on Human Rights Violations in Burma 1997

42 HRDU Facts on Human Rights Violations in Burma 1997 1. Extra-judicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions 1.1. Background 1.2. Death in Custody 1.3. Massacres in Shan State 1.4. List of Incidents Extrajudicial Killings in the Forced Relocation Areas in Shan State 2. Arbitrary Detention and Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 2.1. Background 2.2. Human Rights and SLORC/SPDC s Laws 2.3. Denial of Fair Public Trial 2.4. Arrest of NLD Members and Supporters 2.4.1. February 12 Union Day Celebration Arrest 2.4.2. May 1990 Election Anniversary Arrest 2.4.3. Case of U Cho Aung Than and Others 2.4.4. Arrest of Mayangone NLDMembers 2.4.5. Arrest of Tamwe Township NLD Members 2.5. Announcement of Sentence Commutation and Remission 2.6. List of NLD Members Arrested 2.7. Life in Prisons 2.7.1. Situation in Loikaw Prison 2.7.2. The Medical Care System and HIV/AIDS Situation in Insein Prison 2.7.3. Suffering of Thai Inmates in Burmese Prisons 2.8. Death in Prison 2.9. Prisoners in Poor Health 2.10. Transfer of Political Prisoners 2.11. List of Incidents 3. Rights of the Child 3.1. Background 3.2. Social and Health Situation of Children in Burma 3.3. Education of Children in Burma 3.4. Child Soldiers 3.4.1. Army Volunteers

HRDU 3.5. Child Forced Laborers 3.6. Child Sex Workers 3.7. Life as an Illegal Immigrant Children from Burma 43 4. Forced Portering and Labor 4.1. Background 4.2. Portering 4.3. Other Military Forced Labor 4.4. Military Commercial Interests 4.5. Infrastructure Development and Maintenance 4.6. Prison Labor 4.6.1. Labor Camps for Prisoners 4.6.2. Situation in Kabaw Valley Prison Labor Camp 4.6.3. Establishment of Win Saung - Porter Battalions 4.7. Partial List of 1997 Forced Labor Projects 4.8. Incidents of Forced Labor by Region 4.8.1. Karen State 4.8.2. Tenasserim Division 4.8.3. Chin State 4.8.4. Arakan State 4.8.5. Irrawaddy Division 4.8.6.Karenni State 4.8.7. Magwe Division 4.8.8. Mon State 4.8.9. Sagaing Division 4.8.10. Shan State 4.9. Individual Incidents in 1996 5. Forced Relocation and Internally Displaced Persons 5.1. Background 5.2. Karen State 5.3. Karenni State 5.4. Tenasserim Division 5.5. Shan State 5.6. Other Incidents of Forced Relocation 5.7. Villages Ordered to Move in Karen State Maps of Relocated Villages in Shan State List of Villages Relocated in Shan State 6. Deprivation of Livelihood 6.1. Exploitation and Abuse of Rice Farmers

44 HRDU 6.2. Exploitation and Abuse of Rubber Farmers 6.3. Exploitation and Abuse of Fishermen 6.4. Unfair Levies and Taxes 6.5. Situation in Newly SLORC/SPDC-occupied Areas 6.6. List of Incidents 6.7. List of Burned Villages in Karen State 7. Rights of Minorities 7.1. Background 7.2. Prohibition of Mon National Day 8. Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment, and Punishment 8.1. Torture in Detention 8.1.1. Solitary Confinement 8.1.2. Beatings 8.2. Ill-treatment during Forced Portering and Labor 8.2.1. Other Ill-treatment During Forced Labor 8.2.2. Ill-treatment in the Ethnic Areas 9. Freedom of Belief and Religious Discrimination 9.1. Background 9.2. Buddhist Monks in Detention 9.3. Death of Buddhist Monks in Detention 9.3.1. Monks Arrested and Disrobed in Henzada 9.3.2. Killing of Buddhist Monks in Shan State 9.3.3. Destroying Buddhist Monasteries 9.4. SLORC-instigated Unrest between Buddhist Monks and Muslims 9.5. List of Mosques Destroyed, Damaged, or Looted in Burma (1997) 9.6. Muslims Targeted During Offensive Against the KNU 6th Brigade 9.6.1. List of Muslim Mosques Destroyed during the Offensive 9.7. Religious Discrimination Against Christians 9.7.1. Partial Lists of the Churches Destroyed 10. Freedom of Opinion, Expression, and the Press 10.1. One of the Ten Enemies of the Press 10.2. SLORC/SPDC s Laws Restricting Freedom of Expression 10.3. Visa Restrictions and other Forms of Harassment of Journalists 10.4. Journalists, Writers,and Poets in Burma s Jail 11. Freedom of Assembly and Association 11.1.Mounting Pressure on pro-democracy Opposition

HRDU 11.1.1. Independence Day Celebration 11.1.2. Union Day Celebration 11.1.3. May 27 Election Celebration and NLD Conference 11.1.4. Nineth Anniversary of NLD Founding and Conference 11.2. Freedom of Association 11.2.1. Pressure on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 11.2.2. Pressure on the NLD 11.2.2.1. Forced Resignation of the NLD MPs 11.2.2.2. Harassment of NLD Members 11.2.2.3. Torture of the NLD Leaders 11.2.2.4. Arrest and Attempt to Use NLD Members as Porters in Frontline 11.2.2.5. Singling Out and Revoking Medical License for Being a NLD Member 11.2.2.6. Forced Removal of NLD Party Signboard 11.2.2.7. Verbal and Physical Abuses to the NLD Members 11.2.2.8. Extra-judicial Arrest of NLD MP 11.2.2.9. Harassment on the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi s Meetings with NLD Youth 11.2.3. No Free and Independent Trade Unions 11.2.4. SLORC/SPDC-run NGOs in Burma 12. Freedom of Movement 12.1. Background 12.2. Restriction on the Movement of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 12.3. Restriction on the Movement of Rohingya 13. Abuse of Women 13.1. Background 13.2. Burmese Women in Politics 13.3. Women Political Prisoners Behind Bars 13.4. 1997 Arrests of Female Activists 13.5. Women and Forced Labor 13.6. Rape and Sexual Violence by the Military 13.6.1. Incidents of Rape and Sexual Assult 13.7. Refugee Women 13.8. Burmese Women Migrant Workers in Thailand 13.9.Burmese Women Sex Workers in Thailand 13.10. Burmese Women and HIV 45

46 HRDU 14. The Refugee Situation and Forced Repatriation 14.1. Background 14.2. The DKBA and Thai-Burma Border Incursions 14.2.1. January Attack on Huay Kaloke Refugee Camp 14.2.2. January Attrack on Huay Bon Refugee Camp 14.2.3. January Attack on Mae La Refugee Camp 14.2.4. January Attack on Shoklo Refugee Camp 14.2.5. Lists of Incidents 14.3. 1997 Offensive against the KNU and Renewed Refugee Crisis 14.3.1. The Tenasserim Region Offensive against KNU 4th Brigade 14.3.1.1. The Refugee Influx from Tenasserim Division 14.3.2. The Dooplaya Region Offensive against KNU 6th Briagde 14.3.2.1. The Refugee Influx from Dooplaya Region 14.4. The Situation of Mon Refugees along the Thai-Burma Border 14.5. Conditions in Refugee Camps in Thailand 14.5.1.SPDC Incursions into Halockani Mon Refugee Camp 14.6. The Situation of Shan Refugees along the Thai-Burma Border 14.7. Thai Policy on Refugees from Burma 14.8. Thai Policy on Burmese Migrant Workers 14.8.1. Exploitation of Burmese Workers: The National Stadium Project 14.9. Arrest and Harassment of Burmese Opposition Groups in Thailand 14.10. The Situation of Burmese Student Dissidents in Thailand 14.11. Rohingya Muslim Refugees in Bangladesh 14.11.1. Discrimination against the Rohingya in Burma 14.11.2. The Situation of Newly-arrived Rohingya Refugees Throughout 1997 14.12. The Situation of Refugees from Burma in India