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State of Terror 
The ongoing rape, murder, torture and forced labour suffered bywomen living under the Burmese Military Regime in Karen State
The Karen Women's Organisation (KWO)February 2007
 
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Report Title
"When I think about life for people in Karen State, it reminds me of a Buddhist legendI heard as a child growing up in Toungoo District. The legend is very old and it isabout a city in India called Vissali. The city had faced three major calamities andmany people and animals had died. Because there were so many dead the city wasfull of monsters, ghosts and demons. The monsters attacked those who remainedand there were many more deaths, the people were terrorised by the monsters. It isthe same now for our people in Karen State living under the SPDC, they all live in aconstant “State of Terror.”
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Front Cover Image
The woman pictured on the cover was forced, like many others,to flee into the jungleafter her village was attacked.She lost her husband and one son when the militaryattackedthem in the jungle. One of her other sons was badly wounded.Over 70 percent of those displaced from villages during violentattacks by the military are women and children.
HOW TO CONTACT KWO:
KWO CentralPO Box 19Mae Sariang 58110Mae Hong Son ProvinceThailandE-mail: kwo@loxinfo.co.thKWO SouthPO Box 60Mae Sot 63110Tak ProvinceThailandkrcwdg@loxinfo.co.thwww.womenofburma.org ,www.karenwomen.org
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KWO Documentation Team member, May 2006
 
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Table of Contents Page Number 
 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................
v
 
 Acronyms................................................................................................................
vi
 
Map of Burma........................................................................................................
vii
Map of Karen State...............................................................................................
viii
 
Executive Summary.................................................................................................
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Recommendations...................................................................................................
2
 Introduction..............................................................................................................
4
 Methodology............................................................................................................
5
 Human Rights Violations: Violence against Women...............................................
5
 Forced Labour & International Law.........................................................................
7
 
Portering......................................................................................................
7
 History of the Repression of the Karen People in Burma........................................
8
The struggle for independence: 1948 – 1974..............................................
8
 
The Four Cuts Policy: Forced Relocations and
 
Forced Labour.............................................................................................
9
 Ongoing Violence Across Karen Districts Despite Informal Ceasefire..................
10
Pa-an District.............................................................................................
10
 
Thaton District............................................................................................
10
 
Toungoo District.........................................................................................
10
 
Nyaunglebin District...................................................................................
11
 
Dooplaya District (Kawkarate District).......................................................
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  Analysis of Findings: Women's Testimonies.........................................................
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Forced Labour and Portering Across Karen State.....................................
12
 
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Forced labour across Karen State ................................................
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Pregnant and breast feeding women takenas porters........................................................................................
14
 
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Rape of women and girls taken as porters....................................
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Rape and Sexual Violence Across Karen State........................................
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Rape of girl children and Buddhist nuns........................................
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Murder, Torture and Looting Across Karen State......................................
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Torture of women village chiefs.....................................................
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Murder of women and children......................................................
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