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- Subject: Burma: Porters and prostitutes
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- The ACTivist Volume 9 #1, January 1993.
-
- The ACTivist is published monthly by the ACT for Disarmament
- Coalition, 736 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2R4, phone
- 416-531-6154, fax 416-531-5850, e-mail web:act. Hard copy
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- /** gen.newsletter: 129.8 **/
- ** Written 11:45 pm Jan 9, 1993 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
- BURMA -- PORTERS AND PROSTITUTES
-
- Village women and children are taken to sweep roads for mines
- whenever SLORC military convoys are due to pass ... Women are often
- forced to march into battle in a line in front of SLORC troops ...
-
- Men and women are constantly taken as munitions porters to
- carry all the SLORC army's equipment, supplies and ammunition
- through the mountains ... During rests the women are routinely
- gang-raped by the troops, even those who are already in an advanced
- state of pregnancy or carrying infants along with their loads ...
-
- Upon entering villages in ethnic areas, SLORC troops routinely rape
- the women ...
-
- -- Democratic Alliance of Burma, for Amnesty International Burma Group
- Meeting
-
-
- On 9th June 1992, approximately 45 Burmese women were seized
- at their brothels in Ranong province (south of Thailand) and then
- they were taken to Bangkok.
-
- About 10 Burmese young women, aged between 14 to 21, were
- sent to the Centre for the Protection of Children's Rights (CPCR).
- And the others Burmese women were sent to the Women Detention
- Centre(WDC) in Bangkok.
-
- According to our sources, they were persuaded to leave their homes
- in order to find jobs somewhere else. Some were very young when
- they left their homes. These young Burmese women, eventually,
- became prostitutes against their will.
-
- After they became prostitutes in Ranong, they faced many forms
- of human rights violations such as beating, raping and not being
- given any food for one or two weeks. Throughout this time, they
- were completely imprisoned by procurers and owners.
-
- Right now, the women in CPRC are willing to return to Burma but
- only in safety. Three Burmese women were discovered to have AIDS.
- They fear cyanide injection by the Burmese authorities. Because
- recently one repulsive episode occurred in Burma; Burmese
- prostitute women who were deported to Burma were injected
- with cyanide by Burmese military in order to kill them.
-
- -- Burma Information Group
-
- ** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **
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