June also saw a wave of communal sectarian violence in western Burma‟s Arakan State. A few days into the clashes a state of emergency in Arakan state had been declared, and reports of mass arrests began to surface. Apart from locals who were arrested, detained or questioned, the UN and several humanitarian agencies that
Police officers and interrogators systematically infringe detainees‟ rights with  total impunity, especially in the ethnic nationality areas. In one incident in Mon state, a 24-year-old was left paralyzed after being beaten and tortured by two police officers. In Kachin State, authorities continue to arrest displaced people fleeing from conflict areas, and in one case families of villagers who were arrested have reportedly been forced to
pay tens of thousands of kyats per month so that their relatives receive food. Some reports that were released in June also affirm that despite the nominally civilian Government‟s promises to put an end to these phenomena, cases of human trafficking, forced labor and under-aged recruitment to the military are as wide spread as ever, especially in ethnic nationalities areas