Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma: We have to give them so much that our stomachs are empty of food: The hidden impact of Burma’s arbitrary and corrupt taxation

1 September 2010, 1:30 pm

“On average, villagers have to provide military government organizations with more than 10,000 kyat a month. Even though villagers have no food to eat they still have to pay them. At the hands of the SPDC the villagers have to work harder but they still have not enough food for their families.”Burma’s military regime has [...]... Read More »

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