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THE BURMANET NEWS: AUGUST 13, 1994


CONTENTS:

1:  SPECIAL REPORT FROM INSIDE HALOCKANI CAMP
2:  MON REFUGEES MUST GO HOME: NSC CHIEF
3:  MON REFUGEES STILL THREATENED BY BURMESE BORDER SOLDIERS
4:  REPATRIATED ILLEGALS ADD TO STRAIN ON CAMP
5:  MON HOLD TO SAFETY AS DEADLINE PASSES FOR RETURN TO BURMA
6:  XUWICHA EXPECTED TO VISIT HALOCKHANI CAMP
7:  AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS THREE PROMINENT CRITICS OF BURMESE JUNTA
    ARRESTED
8:  NEARLY 1,400 ROHINGYA's IN B'DESH RETURN TO BURMA
9:  CONSORTIUM COMPLETES DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR BURMESE GAS FIELD
10: BURMA PLANS SECOND TRADE FAIR
11: THAI GHOST STORY



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1: SPECIAL REPORT FROM INSIDE HALOCKANI CAMP
BurmaNet

BurmaNet has this report from a special correspondent who has been inside
Halockani refugee camp and Palai Thumpai village:

Report from the Thai Burma border 10-12 August 1994.  Burmese troops seen
near Mon refugee camp  The Palai Thumpai camp totally empty.

On the 11th of August, the Thai Border Patrol Police stationed at the
Halockhani checkpoint at the Thai-Burma border intercepted a message from a
group of Burmese soldiers. The intercepted message indicated that a group of
Burmese soldiers stayed at the mountain just beyond the Border Patrol's
position.  It is known that the Burmese 62d and 343d Light Infantry
Battalions, totalling 300 persons (including 80 porters), are on their way
from Ye to Three Pagodas Pass. 

The Thai Border Police ordered silence and all fires or lights in the refugee
camp be extinguished.  The order was quickly carried out by Mon leaders in
the camp.  After the lights in the camp were turned off, torch lights were
seen on the nearby mountain.  Both the Thai Border Police and Mon camp
leaders set guards out during the night and made a plan for evacuating the
refugees further into Thailand in the event of an attack. 

The refugees are scared but there are is no panic. There are 15 Thai Border
Patrol Policemen in the area but it is questionable if they are capable of
protecting the refugees in case of an attack by Burmese soldiers. The
shortest way between Ye and Three Pagodas Pass goes through the Halockhani
refugee camp.  

Some Mon sources suggest that the reason for the attack at Palai Thumpai two
weeks ago and the presence of troops near the refugee camp is that the 62nd
Battalion wants to make a stronghold to support logging and other economic
interests in the area.  There have been attempts to establish control over
the area earlier and to make a stronghold there, but these attempts have been
unsuccessful. 

Palai Thumpai is now totally empty of people. The village that was attacked
three weeks ago remains a ghost town in the mountainous area near Three
Pagodas Pass. Of the approximately 120 houses in the village half are in
ashes, and the others show signs that the Burmese soldiers tried to burn them
down, but due to rain at the time, the fires were extinguished before the
houses were destroyed. 

Only the monastery remains now.  During the raid on Halockhani, the monastery
was used as the base for the commander while the village people were gathered
in the nearby school.  Two farmers have been told to look after the
monastery, and they are today the only people who come back to the village.
Some farmers came to Halockhani during the daytime to gather vegetables, but
they all leave before sunset.  Several of the farmers confirm that there are
Burmese troops only 3 kilometres west of Palai Thumpai, where there is a
logging road from Palai Thumpai to Three Pagodas Pass.  Fifteen minutes from
Halockhani main camp there are several bullet holes in the trees nearby the
path, showing the place where Mon soldiers ambushed Burmese troops who were
advancing on the main camp.  

The Mon people are following the situation in the camp closely and ask for
independent observers to stay in the refugee camp to monitor the situation
during the coming weeks. 

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2: MON REFUGEES MUST GO HOME: NSC CHIEF
Bangkok Post

National Security Council Deputy Chief Kachadpai Burusapattana yesterday
reaffirmed that the Mon people who fled across the border into Kanchanaburi's
Sangkhla Buri district must return to Burma when the situation returns to
normal.  

About 6000 Mon people fled into Thailand on July 21, following the Burmese
army attack on their settlement at Halockhani camp.

Mr. Kachadpai said the Mon people are allowed to take refuge in Thailand have
been under the care of the Border Patrol Police and ht e9th Infantry
Division. 

"Now that the situation has returned back to normal, they must go back to
where they came from," he said.

The NSC deputy chief sait it is not right for the UNHCR or anyone else to say
that the Mon people are refugees.

"We regard them as illegal immigrants.  It is well known that this is
Thailand's policy."

"Whenever there is fighting in Burma, there are always refugees fleeing
across the border into Thailand at Mae Hong Son, Tak and Kanchanaburi."

"When this hapens, our officials responsible for border security provide them
with food and medicine as necessary. Those who come with weapons are
disarmed."

"When the situation returns to normal, we send them back to a safe area.  We
have done it this way without problems."

"The Mon are no exception.  We cannot accept them as refugees," Mr. Kachadpai
said.

The NSC deputy chief said military authorities in SangkhlaBuri reported the
situation inside Burma opposite Kanchanaburi had returned to normal and
BUrmese soldiers had withdrawn from the vicinity of Halockani camp.

He reiterated that the military and police authoriites concerned are
confident that the Mon will be safe when they return to Burma, otherwise they
would not be sent back.

"Thailand is not in a position to accept any refugees.  What we have been
doing is sending them home.  We have done this with Lao and Cambodian
refugees without any problem," Mr. Kachadpai said.

Concerning the ethnic minority groups in Burma, Thailand has helped them when
in dnager.  They come and go according to the situation and THailand has
never used force to push them out of the country," he said.

"Thailand adheres strongly to the humanitarian principle.  Isn't it because
of this principle that there are now a large number of illegal immigrants
causing problems in our country?" the NSC deputy chief asked.

Mr. Kachadpai said that Thailand has informed the UNHCR of this policy.

"How can we allow them [the Mon] to say in that part of the country which is
still rich with forests because they may soon cut down all the trees?

"We have also to protect our natural resources and other countries or
organisations should have sympathy for Thailand concerning this matter," he
added.

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MON REFUGEES STILL THREATENED BY LOOMING BURMESE BORDER SOLDIERS
Bangkok Post

Burmese soldiers who forced 6000 ethnic minorities to seek sanctuary in
THaialnd are still close enough to pose a threat to the refugees, aid workers
and activists told the Associated Press yesterday.

About 300 soldiers of the Burmese junta were seen Thursday night travelling
on elephants near the temporary shelter the Mon ethnic minorites have built
in a valley just across the border in Thaialnd, said Faith Doherty of the
Southeast Asia Information Network.

"The fear level was enormous," said Doherty, who spent the night with the
refugees on the Burmese border in northwerstern Thailand.  "Even on the Thai
side it is very difficulty to feel safe."

The Mon fled into Thailand on July 22, when Burmese soldiers torched their
camp and seized dozens of men.  Nobody was hurt in the attach and Thai
authorities--who maintain relations with Burma's junta--have said the
refugees must return to Burma.  But the Mon have so far refused, insisting
the area remains unsafe.

Nai Mon Chan, secretary-general of the Mon Nantional Relief Committee, said
in a telephone interview from near the border that the BUrmese soldiers where
just two km. from the Mon on the mountain overlooking the makeshift camp.

"They came very close to the temporary camp," he said.  "It may be
dangerous."

[material abridged]

Nai Mon Chan said the refugees had stockpiled food and water but did not have
sufficient medical supplies, which he said would be needed in the unsanityart
conditions under which the refugees are living.

Two doctors from Doctors without Borders were reportedly treating Mon at the
site for everything from dysentar to maleria.

"The health situation is very precarious," Doherty said.  "You've got
thousands of people in a very small area...Living under plastic sheeting, mud
up to their knees.

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REPATRIATED ILLEGALS ADD TO STRAIN ON CAMP
The Nation

Already faced with overcrowded conditions and dwindling supplies at
Halockhani refugee camp, Mon relief authoriteis have the added burder of
looking after hundreds of illegal BUrmese immigrants who are sent to the
border site every wek by Thai authorities in chage of repatriation.

The Immigration Detention Center (IDC) sends an average of 400 captured
illegal immigrants to Halockhani--a repatatriation drop-off point--every week
from its prisons in Bangkok and Kanchanaburi, accorgin to Nai SHwe Thein, a
Mon National Relief Committee (MNRC) official.

"The most we ever got in one week was wehn 800 people were sent up," he says. 
"They arrive packed into trucks like cattle, thin and pale.  You can see on
their faces they have had a tough time.  It is very easy to distinguish them
from the refugees, who look healthy by comparison."

The MNRC hands out food--usualy rice, sauce and some fish paste--to the new
arrivals, who come from all over Burma and have many different ethnic
backgrounds. It continues this policy despite the fact that Thai authorities
have now blocked the delivery of supplies to the camp in an attempt to force
the refugees bck to the BUrmese side of the border.

The repatriated immigrants also get to stay in the houses abandoned by the
refugees when the fled an attack by Burmese troops last month.  These
lodgings are relatively comfortable compared to the shacks set up by the
refugees at a border checkpoint dubbed "New Halockanie", less than a
kilometer away.

Many of the Mon refugees return accross the border to "Old" Halockhani during
the day to tend their gardens and livestock.  But Mon leaders claim none of
them sleep there at night, fearing the return of Burmese soldiers.

Border Patrol Police troops also go into the original Halockhani during the
dsya, though it is technically Burmese territory.

"We come to look after the villagers," says sone of the troops.  "But if the
Burmese soldiers come here, we will have to leave.  It is their land."

Most of the repatriated immigrants soon move on, explains Nai Shwe Thein,
either going further into Burma or tying to head back into THailand through
jungle trais.  A few do stay at Halockhani, thus adding to the camp's
permanent population.

Considering the situatio, the Mon refugees seem surprisingly tolerant of hte
newcomers.

"We understand they are ina difficulty situation," says Yinkyi, who now lives
in a tiny hut in New Halockhani with her husband and six childnre.  "We don't
mind if they stayin our houses."

The latest shipment of repatriated immigrants ame from Kanchanaburi on AUg 9
and brought about 4700 people, including a one month-old baby, crowded into
three trucks, says Nai Shwe Thein.

Tony, a dark-skinned BUrmese from Rangoon, said he was an air-conditioner
repairman in bangkok until he was caught by the authorities.  He, like the
other captured illegal immigrants, had to pay a 200 baht "car fare" before
being released from prison and sent to Halockani.

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MON HOLD TO SAFETY AS DEADLINE PASSES FOR RETURN TO BURMA
The Nation
[abridged]

Defying increasing pressure from Thai authorities, Mon refugees sheltering on
the Thai border in Kanchanburi have out-stayed an Aug 10 deadline to return
to BUrma, saying it is too dangerous to go back.

On the day of the deadline, an officer from the Kanchanaburi based 9th Army
division came to the camp and said that if all the Mon men returned to
Halockhani camp on the Burmese side of the border, the women and childnre
could stay on the Thai side.

Camp leaders rejected the proposal, saying it was merely a ploy to get all
the refugees to move back, since familites do not want to be separated.


"Besides, the men are afraid of attachs by Burmese soldiers," explained Nai
Mon Chusa, the camp secretary....

 ...After much negotiation...journalists were allowed to enter the camp. 
Authoriteis said they would only open the road once the refugees had all gone
back to Burma.

Asked how the refugees would get enough drinking water, which has had to be
trucked in regularly, the SangkhlaBuri District Officer Kamol Rangsiyanun
replied: "They can drink rain water."

The refugees have indeed set up tanks and rigged up hoses, so that water
supply should not become a problem again until the rains stop.

"We don't have enough food and water to stay for a long time if they block
supplies," said Nai Mon Chusa.  "We have enough rice to last one or two
months, and we can collect rooss and bamboo shoots from the forest, but we
have nearly run out of beans and sardines."

[material abridged]

Nai Sai Mon [one of the sixteen refugees captured by SLORC, 4 of who were
later released] said he was tied up, beaten and burned with cigarettes while
being interrogated by the 62nd Battalion.  He lifted his longyi to show
several round scars on his leg which he claimed were caused by cigarette
burns.

The Burmese soldiers also took three or four villagers and wrapped a tube of
plastic around their nose and mouth, according to Nai Sai Mon.  The tubes
were then filled with water and held in place until the refugees had nearly
drowned...

"The Burmese soldiers kept repeating all the time: "You must not stay here. 
We will come back and if you are still here we will kill you,." said Nai Mit,
a resident of Palai Thumpai who was also tied up, beaten and interrogated...


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XUWICHA EXPECTED TO VISIT HALOCKHANI CAMP
BurmaNet

BurmaNet has a report from Mon sources that Xuwicha Hiranprueck, an
influential Thai businessman is expected to to go Halockani camp today. 
Xuwicha is credited by observers with being the architect of Thailand's
current hard-line policy regarding refugees from Burma.  The source on the
border also reports that Xuwicha may travel to the nearby Mon refugee camp at
Payaw.  Some of the New Mon State Party leadership lives near Payaw camp, but
there is no word on whether he will meet with the Mon leaders.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS THREE PROMINENT CRITICS OF BURMESE JUNTA ARRESTED
Associated Press

Amnesty International says three prominent critics of Burma's military junta
have been arrested in Rangoon, and the London-based human rights group
expressed concern for their safety.

The three, opposition politican Khin Maung Swe, writer San San New, and
journalist Sein Hla Oo, "are well known in Myanmar as critics of the military
government...and are prolific writers in support of their cause" said Amnesty
International.

Myanmar is the official name of Burma bestowed by the junta that took power
in 1988 after suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations.

"Amnesty International fears for their safety, especially in view of the
reliable reports it has received of the torture and ill-treatment of detained
government opponenents," said the press release received in Bangkok
yesterday.

One of the persons said to be detained on AUgust 4 or 5, Khin Muang Swe, is
a member of the National League for Democracy, the mian opposition party, and
was elected to parliament in a 1990 general election.  The NLD won a
landslide victory but junta never allowed Parliament to convent and still
holds power.

San San Nwe was arrested along with her daughter, AI reported....

[abridged]

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NEARLY 1,400 ROHINGYA's IN B'DESH RETURN TO BURMA
Reuters, Cox's Bazar

Nearly 1,400 Burmese Muslim refugees, living in Bangladesh for over two
years, left for home over the past week, government officials said yesterday. 

"They went home volunaritly in several groups," one official said.  

Officials said there were still about 200,000 refugees in 18 camps in the
southeastern Cox's Bazar district bordering Burma.  More than 61,300 refugees
have returned home since September 1992.

The refugees, known as Rohingyas, fled to Bangladesh in early 1992 to escape
alleged military persectuion in Arakan, Burma's only Muslim dominated state.

Officials from the two countries were meeting at Cox's Bazar yesterday to try
to speed up the repatriation.  They told reporters they hoped up to 20,000 a
month would be able to return in future.


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CONSORTIUM COMPLETES DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR BURMESE GAS FIELD.
Bangkok Post

A consortium comprising Total of France and Unocal Corp of the US has
completed drawing up a development scheme for Yadana, Burma's largest known
gas field, output from whcih will be exported to Thailand.

But implementation of the multi-billion-baht plan awaits conclusion of a gas
sale agreement between the production sharing contractor group and the
Petroleum Authority of Thailand.

Negotiations to pipe the gas from the GBulf of Matarban to Thailand are said
to be at an advanced stage, althogh progress has been relatively slow
recently, according to industry sources.

The development scheme of Yadana (jewel in Burmese) project is said to be
relatively conventional with the intallation of four well-head platforms and
a production platform plus a 415 kilometer gas export pipeline to the western
Thai border.

The pipelien route has also been agreed on by all parties concerned.  It is
point of arrival in THailand will be at Pilok, Tohgpaphum district iof
Kanchanaburi, 200km northwest of Bangkok.

An executive of Total, the Yadan project's operator, said the contractor had
no immediate plan to resume drilling in the offhsore gas filed until the gas
slae pact was finalised.

This stems partly from the fact that thte group has obtained enough data
through exploration work which indicates the presence of about five trillion
cubit feet (Tcf)of recoverable gas reserves in the structure, 320km south of
Rangoon.

Four exploratory wells have been drilled by the contractos at a cost of US
$20million and all of them tested good flow rates of gas.

The Yadana reservior is "massive" and its structure is not too complicated
compared with gas fields in the GUlf of THailand.  Therefore, it is expected
to be less expensive to develop and produce.

"Maybe it can produce four Tcf from only 40 wells, whereas in Bkngkot or
Erawan (Two major fields in the GUlf of THailand) you need as many as 300
wells to produce the same amount of as," the executive said.

Much of the Yadana gas will be used to meet Thailand's thirst for electricity
which is rising by mroe than 10%/year.

The Electricity Generating Authority of THaialnd (EGAT) is planning a 2,100mW
combined cycle power house in Ratchaburi province to run Yadana gas.

The Ratchaburi power house will be linked to the Burmese gas line by a 390km
onshore stretch on Thai soil which is estimated to cost $450million to
construct.

Meanwhile, foreign-based Anti-Rangoon groups, primarily in the US and
Thailand, continue their campaigns alleging that foreign oil firms's gas
exploration activities are supposrting the Rangoon military regime's human
rights abuse and damaging the ecology and environment in Burma.

The clandestine "National Coalition Government of theUnion of BUrma" claime
d the planned pipeline would bring gas th wester Thjailand would pass through
the last of the dense rain forests that was home to rare species such as
rhinoceros and hornbill.

They also suggested that the Burmese military was already felling trees and
preparing wide clearing along the pipe-line route to ensure security for the
pipeline.

They alleged that up to 150,000 local civilian families are now forced to
work as unpaid "volunteer" laborours in the infrastructural projects such as
clearing forests, building railway lines and road.

All these allegations have been flatly denied by the western oil industy.

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BURMA PLANS SECOND TRADE FAIR
The Nation

Burmese officials palnt to organize another trade fair early next year to
promote foreign trade and investmenthere and gain market access for local
products, the official New Light of Myanmar said yesterday.

Foreign exhibitors will be invited to the Jan. 14-Jan 22 Myanmar Trade Fair
'95, to be held at the Myanmar Departmental Store in Rangoon, the newspaper
said.  Myanmar is Burma's official name.

Interested traders, sales representatives, agents associations and public
organization should contact the organizers before Sept. 15, a Trade Ministry
announcement says. The fair will have space for some 250 exhhibitors.

Burma's first trade fair here last April drew more than 200 local exhibitors,
1500 visitor from 41 countries and 250000 Burmese, the newspaper said.


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THAI GHOST STORY

Ed.: It's been another grim week in the news for Burma so for the weekend,
here's a bit of humor.  It's a Thai ghost story told by a writer from The
Nation:

(Aug. 10?, 94)

WHY NOT REVERSE THE TABLES AND EXILE SLORC INSTEAD?
by Kenneth Ywin

Last time when The Nation's three late veteran journalists came to visit us
to watch the World Cup, one other saint was missing--the late M.R. Ayumongol
Sonakul. His hilarious Soliloquies column used to split our sides.

"Where have you been?" I asked him as he tripped into the Editorial
Department in the wee hours of the morning.

"Hello, old chap.  I was in our neighboring country of <SLOG>. I think the
acronym stands for Students and Labourers Overruled by Goons.  Am I right?"

Uncle Ayu looked the same after all those years in Heaven where he was
allowed to take his bottle of Thai brandy.  He refused to touch any foreign
liquor when he was with The Nation.  He quit because he did not want to climb
up the stairs to get his paycheque on the sixth floor.  Many years back, we
didn't have a lift in the old building.  Eccentric was Uncle Ayu's middle
name.

"Why were you in <SLOG> and not here with us to watch the World Cup?"

Uncle Ayu grunted.  "Who wants to watch 22 grown-up men running after a
little ball?"

I find it more interesting to look in at what the rulers of <SLOG> are doing
to brush up their tarnished image in the international community.  Did you
know that they have given new paint jobs to the fences around their villas? 
They still don't realise that the rot is inside."

"You mean to say they actually paid the painters?"

Uncle Ayu glared at me.  "No.  They brought in the workers  from the villages
on the border.  Well, old chap, that's better than being sent as porters to
lug all those heavy weapons and ammunition for their soldiers."

It is hard getting any straight news from our neighboring country where the
elephants have begun to illegally cross Thailand's border to pillage the
fields of sugarcane.

"Just the other day, a herd of about 20 elephants rampaged through 400 rai of
sugarcane fields and destroyed everything," said the village headman.

"You mean they were really elephants and not dressed in green?" asked a
reporter.  I'm quite certain," replied the village headman with a hint of
indignation.  "They were not slogging."

Now the rulers of <SLOG> may outlaw this herd and force them to abandon their
native  homes.

"Anything new in <SLOG>?" I inquired.

"Yes old chap, I say there is something very interesting going on.  The
rulers have opened up the economy.  All of them and their relatives are
setting up business deals with the Thais and Singaporeans."

"That's not all.  The rulers of <SLOG> even gave a face-lift to the residence
of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi before The Secretary visited her for a chat.  Their
first encounter."

According to Uncle Ayu, who swore he was there undetected because he was
invisible to them, the conversation went like this:

<Secretary> You look skinny, just like your father.

<Suu Kyi> Thanks to you and your cronies.  Anyway you should be ashamed to
mention my father's name.

<Secretary> We gave your house a face-lift.

<Suu Kyi> You should give our country what they deserve--democracy and an
elected government.

<Secretary> I didn't hear that.  We've opened up our natural resources for
foreign investors to exploit.  This way we will fill up our national coffers.

<Suu Kyi> You mean your clique's coffers.  You mean to say we still have
natural resources left after three decades of mismanagement of your country
by the rulers of <SLOG>?

<Secretary> I didn't hear that..  Our minister just came back from the ASE-AN
meeting across the border (Uncle Ayu muttered, "ASE-AN? He must mean
Association of Shortsighted Eyes-and-Necks.")

<Suu Kyi> You can't hoodwink everybody all the time.

<Secretary> I didn't hear that.  We've been able to persuade ASE-AN to gobble
up the line and sinker.  (Again Uncle Ayu muttered, "I say, more of a
destructive engagement.")

<Suu Kyi> You call it constructive engagement.  What you mean is their money
for our resources, your profits, the Burmese's loss.

<Secretary> I didn't hear that.  We're opening a dialogue with the United
Nations.  But first of all I have to ask you to leave the country for five
years before you're allowed to come back to run for election.

<Suu Kyi> You have a short memory.  My party won an overwhelming vote to
govern the country.  You put me under house arrest, put my people in prison,
shot at the students, closed down classes....Now you want to start a dialogue
with the United Nations and want me to leave the country and go into exile.

<Secretary> What did you say?

<Suu Kyi> Here is my counter-proposal.  Why don't you and your ruling clique
leave the country for five years.  When you come back, we'll give you new
barracks where you can life your life happily until you retire.  All your
villas will be given to those who fled to the jungles and are now suffering. 
They deserve it.

<Secretary> What would you like?  I can send them to you.

<Suu Kyi> Give me freedom and democracy for our country.

<Secretary> I didn't hear that.  He stalks away.  (Uncle Ayu bitterly hissed,
"---<SLOG>."

<Suu Kyi> Kindly switch on the front porch light and don't slam the door on
your way out.

The phone rang next to us.  "It must be for me," said Uncle Ayu.  "I'm
expecting a call from Number One."

I furtively glanced at him.  "You mean you're' expecting a call from Heaven?"

Uncle Ayu laughed.  "No.  I talked to the Number One of the rulers of <SLOG>
before I came over here.

I was very excited.  Uncle Ayu would be the first outsider to have met Number
One.  "Now there's a scoop," I yelled.

"Calm down, old chap.  Number One didn't say much.  He's still suffering from
a three-decade old headache and no one dares disturb him.  So he is left
alone nowadays."

I begged Uncle Ayu.  "Tell me, please, tell me what he told you."

He smiled.  "All Number One said was, `Where's my Secretary?'"

The phone kept on ringing.  I picked it up.  "Hello, who do you like to speak
to?"

The hoarse voice said "Give me Ayu."

I handed over the phone.  "Hello Number One, this is Ayu.  Have you found out
where your secretary has been?"

Uncle Ayu's face turned pale.  "Oops, sorry Number One, I thought you were
Number One of..."

His voice trailed off as I heard thunder clapping and a deafening roar swept
out of the phone.  "Get your --- over here fast or I'll send you over there
to <SLOG> indefinitely."

Uncle Ayu glanced back with a smile as he left.  "I wonder what the Secretary
will be up to next.  Keep me posted."



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