Burma Human Rights Network’s report: “We also have dreams” A 42-year-old man told BHRN, “There are gangs here who take people for no reason and torture them after blaming them for not keeping their secrets safe. They don’t inquire much and they just take people and torture. Their victims can’t even go to the authorities to complain against them because they threaten them. Another crime that is very common here is drug dealing. Since people don’t have incomes and they engage in the drug business. Though they get killed, they keep doing it.” Frequently, refugees described drugs as a common type of crime and relate this to the younger generation losing their youth while they languish in the camps. There is a similar lament for youths drawn into criminal gangs, or lured by traffickers. Overwhelmingly, the refugees BHRN spoke to seemed deeply troubled by what is happening to the younger generation without prospects for education or hope for their future. www.bhrn.org.uk 27