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Subject: BURMESE MAN JAILED ON ARMS CHARGE  The Nation (Bangkok)


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The Nation (Bangkok)
February 26, 1994

BURMESE MAN JAILED ON ARMS CHARGE

A Burmese man arrested months ago on a charge of possessing war
weapons and illegal entry into Thailand was on Thursday sentenced
by the Criminal Court to four years and eight months in Jail.

The court initially sentenced Sun Naign to seven years but commuted
the sentence because he had pleaded guilty.

Sun Naign, 28, was among four Burmese arrested in November last
year at a house in Bangkok's Rajthevi district.  Police seized two
sticks of TNT, two M-26 hand grenades, a detonator, electric wire
handgun cartridges in their rented house.

The four said they had planned to use suicide bombs to assassinate
Gen. Khin Nyunt, the chief of Burma's SLORC, on Burma's
Independence Day, Feb. 4.

Following their arrest, Thai authorities have tightened enforcement
of laws to try to control the large number of Burmese illegally in
Thailand.  The move has been criticized by the international
community over the human rights issue.

Sun Naign was previously arrested and imprisoned in 1989 after he
and another Burmese student hijacked a Thai Airways flight from
Rangoon to U-Tapao, in an action he said was to raise international
awareness of the suppression of the democracy movement in Burma.