BURMA USES FORCED LABOR, STUDENTS SAY.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: October 21, 1997 | Copyright information

Burma's military government is using forced labor to build tourist facilities at a national park, a student group in exile said yesterday.

A villager who escaped from Burma said he was among 150 people rounded up weekly by the Burmese military to work without food or pay at a marine national park on Lampi Island, off Burma's southern coast.

About 400 Burmese prisoners also are used as forced labor in the project, the villager told the All Burma Students Democratic Front in Thailand.

A 1996 report by the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon estimated that forced labor accounts for ...

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