Evidence gathered by Amnesty International in June and July 1991 suggests that the Tatmadaw (Myanmar armed forces) continue to seize, ill-treat and kill members of ethnic and religious minorities in rural areas. These violations occur in the context of counter-insurgency campaigns against armed...
1. Turkey: Turkish Constitutional Court judgement results in further conditional releases of political prisoners. 2. UK: AI writes again to government about Northern Ireland killings. 3. UK: Amnesty International welcomes inquiry into Broadwater Farm cases.
According to the newspaper Vecernji List, Baton Beqa, a trade unionist, was arrested and tried after traffic police searched his car and found a list of members of independent trade unionists in Kosovo who had collected donations for ethnic Albanians and had been dismissed from employment. He was...