Provisions for developing hospitals and clinics are also included, as are demand reduction programs. We have also insisted that the UN continuously apprise the National League for Democracy and Aung San Suu Kyi of its program. She has not objected to the program, but wants to be sure that the regime derives no moral or material support from it. The SPDC's severe violations of human rights continued. There continue to be credible reports, particularly from ethnic minority insurgent-dominated areas along the Thai border, that soldiers have committed serious human rights abuses, including rape, forced porterage, and extrajudicial killing.
Disappearances continue, and members of the security forces beat and otherwise abuse detainees.
Arbitrary arrests and detentions of those who express dissenting political views continue. As of September 1999, hundreds, if not more, of political prisoners remained in detention, including more than two dozen members of Parliament elected in 1990. Prison conditions remained deplorable, and prisoners were subjected to a lack of food and adequate medical care. As of September, the ICRC reported it had seen over 18,000 prisoners, including 800 political detainees. ICRC officials reported they were allowed to interview prisoners privately and to conduct complete inspections of the facilities they visited.