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  • Myanmar army continues forced displacement of civilians: HRW

    06/09/2005 2:29:44 PM PDT · by ZayYa · 193+ views
    AFP ^ | June 9, 2005
    BANGKOK (AFP) - Myanmar's army continues to target civilians while fighting ethnic Karen rebels, with extrajudicial killings and forcible displacements of some people up to 100 times in their lives, Human Rights Watch says. Sexual violence, forced labour and looting of villages are common practice for an "unreformed and unaccountable" Myanmar army, US-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report. Yangon also keeps conscripting villages, including children, despite repeated denials, the report said. "The government still allows the Burmese army to kill and drive people out of their villages with complete impunity," Human Rights Watch Asia director Brad Adams...