PHOTO DESCRIPTION LIST: SET 93-E
KYAUK KYI TOWNSHIP

An Independent Report by the Karen Human Rights Group
July 14, 1993

[Note: Clicking on a photo will provide an enlargement of the photo]

These descriptions relate to photos from Kyauk Kyi Township.  For more information, see the Karen Human Rights Group reports, "Forced Relocation in Kyauk Kyi Township" (10/6/1993).

These photos many be duplicated, distributed or published for non-commercial purposes in the interest of spreading information on the plight of people in Burma.  Prints of most of the photos can be provided on request, but please send a contribution to cover transport, duplication and postal costs, and allow for the time it will take us to send the negatives out to be copied.  Photos can also be sent via email upon request.

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Photos #1, 2:  Village coconut palm plantation deliberately destroyed by SLORC troops as part of their efforts to drive villagers out.

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Photos #3, 4:  Remains of abandoned villages after forced relocation.

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Photo #5:  The last two people found in one village, determined to stay: a grandmother and child.

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Photo #6:  Villagers living in shelters at a SLORC relocation site. The area is grazing land which floods in rainy season, June to October.