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REQUEST for ACTION



     
 
  Statement On SLORC's military Offensive Against ABSDF and KNU
           All Burma Students' Democratic Front(ABSDF)
 
 
Troops from the State Law and Order Restoration Council(SLORC) have
started the military offensive against the students and ethnic
Karen forces on December 12, 1994 along the Thai-Burmese border.
 
According to the information received from our headquarters in
Dawngwin, Burma, about 1,400 troops from the SLORC's army have
captured Lae-Toe which is 10 km west of Dawngwin, the headquarters
of the ABSDF and three-hours walking distance from Dawngwin. 
Severe fighting broke out on 13 December between the SLORC's troops
at Lae-Toe and the ABSDF and the Karen National Liberation
Front(armed forces of the Karen National Union) combined forces. 
Another column of the SLORC's troops are now marching toward the
strategic hill Kalimu Kyo, east of Dawngwin.
 
The troops from Papun in Karen State under the command of
South-East Military Command Headquarters have been mobilized since
the first week of December to exploit the situation after the
religious conflict erupted within the Karen National Union(KNU). 
As the conflict intensified between the Buddhist and Christian
Karen, the SLORC's troops quickly captured the strategic hill
Mae-Nyaw-Khei on December 11, Sout-East of Manerplaw, the
headquarters of the KNU. Since December 12, fighting between the
SLORC's forces and the KNU and the ABSDF combined forces has
intensified.
 
Evacuation of women and children from Dawngwin and Manerplaw
headquarters are being under way.  Except a report of injuries
among some members of the ABSDF, the detail information of the
causalities during the battle are not yet known.
 
We highly suspect that the SLORC's intelligence network has
increased the misunderstanding between the Buddhist and Christian
Karen members of the KNU. That is the most ruthless, brutal and
inhuman game that the Burmese military dictatorship has played
since they have seized power in 1962.  The SLORC's military
offensive against the ethnic and democratic forces contradicts with
the SLORC's claim for their interest on national reconciliation and
cease-fire talk with ethnic armed groups.  Besides, it also
indicates that the SLORC is not sincere in their talk with Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi and also with the United Nations in order to restore
democracy, transfer of power to a civilian government and national
reconciliation in Burma. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We would like to call on Governments, Non-Governmental
Organizations and Burmese democratic and support groups around the
world to take effective actions including armed embargo against
SLORC to immediately stop their  military offensive against the
ABSDF and the KNU.
 
All Burma Students' Democratic Front(ABSDF)
Europe Office, P. O Box 6720, ST.Olavs Plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway
Date. December 16, 1994
For More Information, please contact;
 
Aye Chan Naing(Representative-Europe)
tel & fax:47 - 22 - 41 41 43
e-mail:absdf@xxxxxxxxxx
ABSDF Europe Office, Oslo, Norway
Min Aung Myint(Foreign Relations Dept.)                     
tel&fax:66 - 1 - 920 8286
Head Office, ABSDF, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr Thaung Htun(Foreign Secretary)
tel:1- 202-393 7342
fax:1- 202-393 7343
Central Executive Committee Member, ABSDF, New York, USA
 
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International Campagin to Stop SLORC's Military Offensive
Against the ABSDF and the KNU
 
Oslo, December 16, 1994
 
Dear friends,
 
We would like to call on you and your organization to join the
International Campagin to Stop SLORC's military offensive Against
the All Burma Students' Democratic Front(ABSDF) and the Karen
National Union(KNU) forces along the Thai-Burmese border areas.
 
The information we received today from our office in Bangkok, the
ABSDF's headquarters Dawngwin is under heavy fire as of yesterday
evening and the situation is not in our favour.  To protect the
Dawngwin is not important any more than to safe the lives of the
students.  Although women and children have been evacuated, there
are still over 1,000 members of the ABSDF in the camp or around the
camp.  And the food and medicine are urgently needed.  The KNU and
the ABSDF's combined forces are also fighting against SLORC's
troops around Manerplaw, the headquarters of the KNU and Democratic
Alliance of Burma(DAB).
 
The ABSDF Europe Office in Norway would like to request you to join
the International Campagin to Stop SLORC's Military Offensive. We
would like to request you to coordinate your actions and activities
with all the others groups, campaning against the SLORC's military
offensive.
 
Please send us your name or name of your orginazition including
your address, phone & fax number and e-mail address if you would
like to join.  We like to use your name as a supporter of the
campagin.  Even if you don't want to join, we would like to urge
you to take every possible actions or activities to stop the
SLORC's military offensive for example: call on your Government
officials, members of  parliaments and Foreign Ministery officials
and urge them to publicly comdemn the SLORC's military offensive,
tell the SLORC to stop their offensive immediately and call for
international armed embargo against the SLORC.
 
Please act now!  Let us unitedly open the new frontier against the
SLORC military regime in the international arena.
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
Aye Chan Naing(Representative-Europe)
All Burma Students' Democratic Front(ABSDF)
Europe Office
 
P.O Box 6720, ST. Olavs Plass
0130 Oslo, Norway
tel & fax: 47 - 22 - 41 41 43
tel : 47 - 22 - 20 00 21
E-Mail: absdf@xxxxxxxxxx