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Sep 8, 2005 (DVB) - London-based rights group Amnesty International (AI) demanded Burma military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to end human rights abuses including forced labour practices in the country.
In a report issued on 8 September, the AI said the SPDC authorities are still subjecting tens of thousands of ethnic minority civilians to forced labour, beatings, land confiscation and destruction of their homes?
The report, Myanmar: Leaving Home, shows how Burma junta is exploiting the ethnic minority civilian population by confiscating their land, stealing their crops and livestock, extorting money and seizing the population, including women and children, for forced labour. It added that the situation has worsened since the authorities instituted a policy requiring the army to be self-sufficient.
The report is based on interviews with more than a hundred Burmese migrants in Thailand and it reveals an ongoing pattern of human rights violations which contributed to almost one in six people suffering from inadequate nutrition and a third of children suffering chronic malnourishment.
AI also called on the Burmese authorities to immediately halt the practice of forced labour, which violates Burma's international obligations as well as its own domestic law and to end to the evictions of civilians without due process and the requisition of personal property without taking into account the needs of civilians.
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