E/CN.4/1993/62 page 67 Dil Mohammad, 27, from Naikaengdaung village, Buthidaung township, reported that shortly after the 1990 elections, massive construction projects were begun by the military with forced labour on Muslim land. Muslims were told by the military in charge of the projects that ’This is not your land, it is ours.’ They were also told ’You are Bangladeshi tourists with foreign identification and you don’t own land.’ The housing was said to be for military families at first, but soon the units were full of non-Muslim Burmese from other cities. Dil Mohammad was abducted for house and road construction many times over the past two years. Sometimes he was held for as long as three months without a break and allowed to eat only a handful of cooked rice a day. His father, while serving as a forced labourer, was beaten to death in public in order to serve as an example for other villagers. Mohammadullah, from Taungbru, Maungdaw township, had continually been obliged as a village headman to recruit and supply forced labourers from among his fellow Muslims. In early 1991 he was confronted with soldiers who demanded that he turn over a crew of forced labourers. When Mohammadullah refused to do so or go himself, a SLORC officer named Bulachi reportedly shot at him, seriously injuring both Mohammadullah and his son-in-law. Killing during porter duty Some deaths on porter duty are reportedly deliberate executions while others are due to ill-treatment. In many cases, if porters collapsed from exhaustion or could no longer stand after being beaten or kicked, they were left by army troops lying on the ground to die. The following specific cases of death during porter duty were brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur: Nur Islam, 35, was reportedly beaten to death with the butt of a gun by the military in early 1992. One of his relatives from Maungdaw township reported that Nur Islam could not carry his load of ammunition and had fallen down. The military beat him to death and left his body by the side of the track, about 5 miles away from the village, in the mountains. Abdul Mozid, from Nairainchaung, was beaten to death in mid-February 1991 because he was unable to carry his load of rice sacks. Ahmed Zuri, an old man from Buthidaung township, was shot dead by a soldier because he could no longer carry his load up a steep hill and had fallen down onto a lower ridge. Fazil Alam, 45, a farmer in Naikaengdam village, Buthidaung township, had been taken many times as a forced labourer for road construction, usually for two or three days at a time. In December 1991, he was once again taken for forced labour. One day, soldiers appeared at his house and gave his wife a bundle of bloody clothes she recognized as her husband’s. They told her that Fazil Alam had been unable to carry the load he was given and that they had beaten him to death. Imam Hussain, the grocer of Imamuddin Para village, Rakhine State, was seized by soldiers on 30 November 1991 in his store, informed that he was a porter for the army and was made to carry a heavy box of ammunition. After a