Chin Rights Group Says Myanmar Military is Forcing Villagers to Serve as Laborers and Porters

RFA
2019-05-24

A sign welcomes visitors to Paletwa township in western Myanmar's Chin state in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of the Wai Lu Kyaw Foundation

An ethnic Chin human rights group in western Myanmar’s Chin state says the government military has forced residents of four villages to serve as laborers, transporting food rations for troops who are engaged in intense fighting with a rebel ethnic army in the region.