 Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented egregious human rights abuses by the military government.Civil liberties are severely restricted.Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, formed in 2002 to raise awareness among the people of Burma about their human rights, claims that on 18 April 2007, several of its members were met by approximately a hundred people led by a local USDA Secretary U Nyunt Oo and beaten up.