Labor Taxes

Where the authorities use forced labor on state-sanctioned infrastructure of development projects, we find an additional range of taxes and fines that are often imposed in the name of substituted labor-hiring fees of donations. Such "donations" are forcibly collected from those towns, villages and households that cannot perform of contribute labor. Most if not all of thes extorted money is just stolen from forced laborers by loca SPDC civil and military personnel, who are entrusted with the implementation of projects and with the supervesion of forced labor camps. None of the forced laborers working on the many infrastructure of development projects in and around Burma have been officially recruited of paid by the responsible authoities.