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Deveshs

10-19-2007 1:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c2100789-d1e3-42e8-bcb3-20039dd5635b/BA62C074-7E5D-4259-A2CF-C399BE1C128C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hrw.org/reports/2005/burma0605/5.htm" href="http://hrw.org/reports/2005/burma0605/5.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">hrw.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hrw.org/reports/2005/burma0605/5.htm"><H2><FONT size="-1" face="geneva,arial" _moz-rs-heading=""><A name="_Toc105572401">Forced labor</A></FONT></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hrw.org/reports/2005/burma0605/5.htm"><FONT size="-1" face="geneva,arial">Despite repeated denials by the SPDC, the <I>Tatmadaw</I>
continues to conscript local villagers in Karen areas, including children, to
work either as army porters or as unpaid laborers. Many villagers told Human
Rights Watch that they fled as a result of these practices, thus maintaining
the cycle of abuse and displacement. In addition, since January 2004, the SPDC
has also expanded forcible conscription into local militias, which must be
supported financially by villagers.<A name="_ftnref60" href="#_ftn60"><FONT size="1"><SUP>60</SUP></FONT></A>
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hrw.org/reports/2005/burma0605/5.htm"><FONT size="-1" face="geneva,arial">A young man of nineteen described his abduction and forced
labor at the hands of the <I>Tatmadaw</I>:</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BA62C074-7E5D-4259-A2CF-C399BE1C128C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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