Witness: Entrenched Abuse documents use of forced labor in three different areas of Burma in 2003 and offers insight into the impossible choices facing ordinary civilians of all ethnicities under the military dictatorship in Burma.  

The authoritarian military regime that rules Burma - the SPDC - forces hundreds of thousands of people to work against their will, and without pay, on the regime's development projects, as porters in the military, and in other forms of compulsory labor. The International Labor Organization (ILO) - the UN agency that monitors forced labor worldwide - has identified the SPDC regime as one of the world's worst perpetrators. The incidents of abuse were recorded during 2003 among three different ethnic groups - the Karen, Karenni and Burmans - and in different regions of Burma.  Human rights groups have reported numerous other, more egregious incidents that they were unable to film.

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