A new report by the Karen Women’s Organisation, State of Terror, provides graphic evidence of the widespread terror tactics being employed by the military regime’s troops against women across Burma’s Karen State. The report documents over 4,000 cases of abuse, including rape, murder, torture and forced labour, in over 190 villages by troops from over 40 Burmese Army battalions.
As the atrocities continue to mount during the regime’s current military offensives in eastern Burma, the KWO appeals for concerted international pressure on the regime to bring about an immediate nationwide ceasefire and withdrawal of Burmese Army troops from the ethnic states.