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The BurmaNet News: December 26, 1995
Issue #308

Noted in Passing:

	We consider any attempt to prosecute U Sein Hla Aung to be 
	a flagrant violation of fundamental human rights.
	 - Zunetta Liddell, Human Rights Watch/Asia researcher.
	(see: HRWA: BURMA: NLD MEMBER ARRESTED, NEW 
	RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED)

HEADLINES:
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HRWA: BURMA: NLD MEMBER ARRESTED, NEW RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED
BKK POST: EURO BODY TO GIVE B26M AID FOR KAREN REFUGEES
INTELLIGENCE NEWSLETTER: TOTAL HIRES FRENCH MERCENARIES
ABSDF(DNA): SLORC PADDY PROCUREMENT POLICY IN TENESSARIM
ABSDF(DNA): SLORC ABUSES AND KARENNI STATEMENTS 
BKK POST: SAWMILL SET ABLAZE IN REBEL FIREFIGHT
CBC RADIO: INTERVIEW WITH ASSK AND DAVID ABEL
LETTER FROM ZAR NI: RESPONSE TO IHT: ACTIVISM THAT HURTS 
NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR: MYANMAR REPORTS DRUG SEIZURE 
NEW STRAITS TIMES: PASSPORT RING CRIPPLED, SEVEN SUSPECTS DETAINED
XINHUA: MYANMAR TO INTRODUCE TEACHING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
BKK POST: RANGOON PORT TO BE EXPANDED
BKK POST: MANDALAY AIRPORT
BKK POST: BORDER CROSSING
BURMA WEB PAGE: MYANMAR ACTORS & ACTRESSES
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HRWA: BURMA: NLD MEMBER ARRESTED, NEW RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED
December 21, 1995

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information:
Zunetta Liddell,  London,          44 171 713 1995
                         44 171 278 4485 (h)
Mike Jendrzejczyk, Washington,     202-371-6592, ext. 113
                                301-585-5824 (h)


     U Sein Hla Aung, a 45-year-old member of the National League for
Democracy (NLD), will be tried on December 29 in Mandalay, according
to information received by Human Rights Watch/Asia. He was arrested
near his home in Mandalay on December 16 for having distributed videos
of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's "People's Forum", the informal public
gatherings which have taken place outside Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's home
since her release from six years of house arrest in July 1995.   Human
Rights Watch/Asia is concerned that U Sein Hla Aung may not receive a
fair trial, and urges foreign embassies in Rangoon to request details about
the charges against him, and request permission to send diplomatic
observers to attend the trial.
     Since the NLD withdrew from the government-sponsored National
Convention on November 29, 1995, Human Rights Watch/Asia has learned
that  new restrictions have been placed on NLD local party members. 
Under the new orders, any NLD member must seek permission from local
Law and Order Restoration Councils before embarking on any travel or
attending party meetings.  There are also additional restrictions on the
publication and distribution of NLD literature and video films.  Since 1988,
when political parties were first allowed to form in Burma, all written texts
by political parties have had to be approved by the Elections Commission.
It is not known if the new restrictions also apply to other political parties in
Burma.    

     "These laws and new restrictions violate international law," said
Human Rights Watch/Asia researcher Zunetta Liddell. "We consider any
attempt to prosecute U Sein Hla Aung to be a flagrant violation of
fundamental human rights and a sign that the government of Burma does
not at this point intend to implement the recommendations recently adopted
by consensus at the United Nations General Assembly." 

     Human Rights Watch/Asia calls on the government of Burma, the
State Law and Order Restoration Council, to immediately and
unconditionally release U Sein Hla Aung. We also urge the government to
fully implement the recommendations of the December 11, 1995 United
Nations General Assembly resolution, including the provision which  
urges the Government of Myanmar [Burma] to take all appropriate
measures to allow all citizens to participate freely in the political process in
accordance with the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights..."  The resolution also calls on the government   to ensure full
respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedoms of
expression and assembly..."

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BKK POST: EURO BODY TO GIVE B26M AID FOR KAREN REFUGEES
December 23, 1995

THE European Commission will donate emergency food and medicine
worth 26 million baht to Burmese refugees living along the Thai
border, a commission official said yesterday.

The supplies are intended for some 75,000 members of the Karen
ethnic minority who fled across the border after Burmese
government troops captured their military bases last December.

The refugees are known to suffer from malaria and a shortage of
clean drinking water in the border camps.

The official, who works at the commission's delegation in
Bangkok, said the aid package is valued at 25.6 million baht and
will cover the first six months of 1996.

The official, who refused to give his name, said the commission
is also weighing approval of a separate donation of rice and
other food worth an estimated 22.08 million baht.

The Karen have waged a guerrilla war for autonomy from the
central Burmese government almost continuously since Burma won
independence from Britain in 1948.

The Karen National Union, the last major ethnic rebel group to
defy Burma's military government, began peace talks with its
adversaries earlier this month.

The commission, one arm of the European Union, will distribute
its aid to the refugees through two non-government groups,
France's Aide Medicale Internationale and Germany's Malteser
Hilfsdienst.

Its pragramme, approved on December 6, will pay for doctors as
well as medical supplies and food. _ AP

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INTELLIGENCE NEWSLETTER: TOTAL HIRES FRENCH MERCENARIES
December 22, 1995
from mbeer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

SECTION: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE; BURMA; No. 278

    Around 10 French "mercenaries" left about Nov. 20 for Burma to see to the
protection of a 63-km-long gas pipeline that the French oil company Total is
building close to the Thai border (IN 267). The security companies hired by
Total to recruit the mercenaries found it hard to find volunteers.   Indeed, a
lot of French mercenaries took up cause over the years with the Karen rebellion
and some even lost their lives in doing so. The work to be carried out by Total
will be conducted under the "protection" of the Burmese army, and thus against
Karen rebels. As a result, the mercenaries who accepted the job are mainly young
men who recently quit the French army. Among them are two mine disposal experts
who served under UN colors in former Yugoslavia.

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ABSDF(DNA): SLORC PADDY PROCUREMENT POLICY IN TENESSARIM 
DIVISION December 21, 1995

Slorc authorities in Palaw and Laung Lone township in Tenessarim
division forcibly ordered the local farmers to sell 8 Burmese-unit baskets
per acre of cultivated land at the government fixed price of 70 kyats,
compared to a market price of between 300-250 kyats. Some farmers could
not sell that amount because of the flood damage and poor harvests, they
were forced to purchase rice at the market price and sell back to the
Slorc at their fixed price. In order to get the money for purchasing
paddy, they were required to sell their land, house and cattle. Some
farmers were arrested for failing to sell the rice to the Slorc. Last
year, ten farmers from Leik-ou-thaung, Pyin-bu-gyi, Pyin-bu- ngwe village
of Palaw township and 15 farmers from Myo Haung, Thaung Min Pyaung, Sa
khan Gyi villages of Laung Lon township were arrested for this reason.

More tax for the Mergui town beautification
        According to the Township LORC of Palaw townships Order No.
4020/221/3- MaWaTa/Pala-2, issued on November 3, 1995, all the 64 villages
in Palaw township were ordered to pay 35220 kyats not later them November
20, 1995. The reason for the tax was to renovate the pier of Mergui in
order to use as the landing pier of international sea- carriers. Other
beautification are underway for the beautification projects for the Visit
Myanmar Year 1996.

17  laborers died in harness
        On November 22, 1995, 17 forced laborers in Hnin Kyel labor camp
in Ye byu township, Tanessarim division died in harness when the earth
collapsed.  They all were from Ain Shat Pyin village and were forced to
work in this labor camp.  20 laborers were trapped under the earth
collapse and only 17 were rescued and send to Tavoy hospital. All of them
died in the hospital and the other three were missing.  The Tanessarim
division LORC warned the village where the unfortunate were from not to
spread the news out, otherwise they would be severely punished.  The
remaining family did not get any compensation for the deaths although they
Slorc said before any death accidents would be compensated 10,000 kyats.

Human Rights Day beating
        On December 10, 1995, an International Human Rights Day, village
headman of Hta-min-ma-sar village, Palaw township in Tenessarim division
was beaten up by the deputy column commander Cap. Tha Ban of IB (17). The
military column arrived the village and arrested the headman. Cap. Than
Ban interrogated the whereabouts of ABSDF forces. He did not actually have
any contacts with the forces and he said no. He was later tied his hands
at his back and beaten up severely while he was interrogated.

Even exile Burmese cannot escape from Slorcs coercion of donation
        Exile Burmese in Bangkok were coerced to donate money for giving
honor to the winning Burmese athletes of the 18th SEA Games held in Chaing
Mai, Bangkok.  According to the letter No. 4986/45 issued on October 6,
1995, the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok asked the Burmese passport holders to
contribute money to the Embassy for its honoring ceremony to the winning
Burmese athletes of SEA Games. In addition to this, the exile Burmese were
asked to donate for the Slorc chairman trophy Golf competition (Dec,
1995), Burmese Regatta Festival (December 1995), and third National Sport
Festival (February, 1996).
        Burmese who need to extend their visas and need some official
papers from the Burmese embassy are coerced to donate money for these
reason. They have no other choice but to pay some money in order to smooth
their needs. That is ridiculous because the Burmese embassy never take
care of its citizens in Bangkok but just coercing money from them. Recent,
25 Burmese passportholders with genuine and valid visa were rounded up on
Dec.11 in Bangkok and detained at the police lockup for a whole day
without any reason. They did not get any assistance from Burmese embassy.

ABSDF NEWS AGENCY
ABSDF (DAWN GWIN)

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ABSDF(DNA): SLORC ABUSES AND KARENNI STATEMENTS
December 23 1995 
>From <caroline@xxxxxxxxxx>

ANOTHER BEAUTIFICATION ORDER IN KAN BAUK

        Kan Bauk district in Tenessarim division has been recently
promoted as a township level administrative area. In order to qualify the
township level standard, people from Kan Bauk were ordered to do
beautification activities by the Slorc. Without any assistance by the
authorities, people required to extend the motor roads, build up the
platforms and white wash their houses with their own expense. Each person
from every household had to go and work the unpaid labor for these
beautification activities. Every household had to pay for building up the
platform in front of their house. The pay would vary depend on the length
of the house on the street. The cost of 10 foot long platform was 500
Kyats. If fail to pay, their house and land would be seized without any
compensation and people would be forcibly evicted from the township. The
family of U Ah Htaw and Daw Gib Poke from Mya Thida ward was evicted from
the township for failing to pay 4000 Kyats for 80 foot long platform in
front of their house. Family of U Pho Hto and Daw Khin Hla from Khine
Thazin ward faced similar fate for failing to pay 2000 Kyats for 40 foot
long platform.

Military and illegal logging on Hein Zel islands
        Military buildings and office building of foreign oil companies
built up with using forced labor the Hein Zel islands has been over but
people are still summoned to work on the island and used illegal logging
businesses run by military officials.
        A company commanded by Major Thadoe Aung of LIB 410 which is
taking security guard on the Hein Zel island conscripted 15 local
villagers from Bwu Gyi, Bwike, Tabin Shwehtee, Lin Lun Bwu, Walakoke
villager which are situated just opposite of the island and used in their
illegal logging concession on the island. The conscripted laborers were
required to cut and saw the logs. later the military sold it one ton for
10,000 kyats.  In every night, the illegal boats from Pa-nga, Kalope-pi,
Mawkanin, Kawduk and Lamai shipped at the island and smuggled out.

rapes and sexual harassment in the forced labor camps
        Corporal Aung Win from LIB 407 was beaten up on November 25, by
the laborers in Nwe Li labor camp Tavoy, Tenessarim division while he and
other one soldier attempting to rape the female laborer from the camp.  He
was seriously injured from the beating and later taken to the Tavoy
hospital. The victim was Ma San Aye, 21 years old girl from Pyine Htein
village, Laung Lon township.

"STATEMENT OF KARENNI NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY'S 
DECEMBER 20, 1995 EMERGENCY MEETING WITH REGARD 
TO CEASE-FIRE"  (full text)

        In response to its peace overture, the Karenni National Party had
a series of talk with Slorc. Slorc agreed to 16 points put forward by
KNPP, and as a result, an agreement was reached. To mark and solemnized
the agreement, a ceremony was held on March 21, 1995. But after the
ceremony, Slorc failed to abide by the agreement. It, in violation of the
agreement, launched a major military offensive code-named "Taing Lone
Heim" (Echo through the region), sending thousands of its troops into the
KNPP controlled area. KNPP tried to solve the problem through talks on
June 20 and June 22 in Loikaw with local Slorc's commanders, but without
any positive result. Wishing to abide by the cease-fire agree reached on
March 21, 1995, and wanting to know the intention of Slorc clearly, KNPP,
as an attempt to solve the problem, sent a delegation to Rangoon on
November 21, 1995. During the talks with Slorc, the KNPP delegation was
explicitly told that the agreement reached between it and the former did
not amount to an official agreement, and that Slorc could not withdraw its
troops it had thrown into Karenni-controlled area. The agreement reached,
Slorc's military authorities said, was only a step where KNPP had entered
the legal fold. Slorc has not only violated an agreement reached with KNPP
on March 21, 1995, it also regards KNPP as a group that has surrendered.
hence, KNPP regards the agreement reached with Slorc in March 1995 as null
and void. On the other hand, KNPP firmly believes that peace can be
achieved through the official cease-fire reached with Slorc in March 1995.
Hence, based on equality, mutual respects, mutual recognition, good will
and honesty, KNPP is willing to continue holding cease-fire talks with
Slorc. Central Committee Karenni national Progressive party

ABSDF NEWS AGENCY
ABSDF (DAWN GWIN)

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BKK POST: SAWMILL SET ABLAZE IN REBEL FIREFIGHT
December 21, 1995                 Tha Song Yang, Tak

A REBEL HELD sawmill was set ablaze in a clash on Tuesday between
Karen National Union (KNU) rebels and proRangoon Democratic Karen
Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops near the Thai-Burmese border here.

Thai security officials said  the clash followed the seizure  of
several sawmills along the  Moei River, opposite Mae Lae  in Tha
Song Yang district, by about 150 DKBA soldiers.

The renegade DKBA troop who broke away from the KNU early this
year following internal conflicts, also uncovered a small each of
assault rifles belonging to the KNU.

In a bid to retake the sawmills, Karen rebels engaged the Karen
Buddhists in a fierce firefight during which a sawmill was hit by
a shell and caught fire.

The Thai officials said several troops on both sides were killed
or wounded.

They said the DKBA had threatened to attack Mae Hla refugee camp
on-the Thai side which is housing thousands of Karen refugees.

In another development army attache of the US Embassy, Col Thomas
D. Washburn inspected the border in Mae Sot District.

His delegation was given a briefing on the border situation by
Col Suwit Manmuen,  commander of the special force  of the 4th
Infantry Regiment. 

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LETTER FROM ZAR NI: RESPONSE TO IHT: ACTIVISM THAT HURTS 
PEOPLE IN NEED   December 18, 1995

Here is my reponse to Joe Pang, the managing director of Victoria Garment
Manufacturing Company in Hong Kong, which has four factories in Burma.

It's interesting the author, Mr. Joe Pang framed his argument in the
language of workers' rights as if he truly were sympathetic to the
well-being of our workers.

The timing of his exploratory business trip to Burma renders his "I care
about the workers rights" argument utterly hypocritical.  In 1989, the year
Mr. Pang set foot in Rangoon in search of cheap labor, (oh, yes), the blood
stains of thousands of pro-democracy fighters who were slughtered by the SLORC,
Mr. Pang's then potential business partner, on the walls, on the bridges,
on the streets, on the trees, and in the burial grounds in Rangoon,
Sagaing, and various other places were yet to be whitewashed.  That was the
time, even the "money worshipping highly pro-business" Japan decided not to
continue doing business with Burma's murderers.  Western governments,
inconsistent and hypocritical though they may be generally, were condemning
the SLORC in the strongest language.  Despite the brutality and barbarity
of the regime, Mr. Pang found it honorable to shake the bloodstained hands
of the regime as he evidently has been driven by nother other than profit
motive.

Mr. Pang lamented the fact that the workers' salaries have gone down from
$30-40 to  $12 and that there will have to be lay-offs.  Both are due, so
accuses Mr. Pang,  primarily because of human rights activists who campaign
hard for the corporate withdrawal from Burma through consumer pressure,
picketting and so on.    Of course, Mr. Pang wanted to be perceived as a
"humane employer" whe has helped the people of Burma by employing initially
400 workers.  His message, it seems, is "All you human rights activists
should respect the rights of the Burmese workers, not deny them the
opportunity to work."

How can workers have rights in a country like Burma where the entire
populace have been deprived of even the most fundamental civil liberties
and other forms of group or individual freedom?

I lived there 25 years of my life.  We survived without joint ventures by
which many foreign  businessmen with their ruthless, unethical and
greed-driven business practices reap the lion's share while their employees
work on a temporary basis at roughly 10 cents an hour under hazadous
conditions without health or any kind of benefits, pension, and the rights
to protect themselves through unions.

Also many people within the country are politically enlightened enough to
realize that foreign investors like Mr. Joe Pang are perpetuating the
oppressive system.  My people know that foreign investment money including
that from Mr. Pang's garment joint venture goes straight into the coffers
of Slorc generals, who are mad enough to spend nearly $2 billion for arms
build-up while letting the country go down the Burmese Way to Hell.

Over the past three decades, thousands of my people--students, monks, women,
men, and even children--have sacrificed their well-being in the struggle
to free themseves from the yoke of the tyrannical regime.  And many
continue with the struggle in their own ways.  Who dare claim that our
people have buried their desire to live "full and meaningful life" under a
just and democratic government simply because they now have an opportunity
to work for an obvious scumbag like Mr. Pang__ for 10 cents an hour?

As the country's legitimate leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, writes
eloquently, "the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a
struggle for life and dignity.  It is a struggle that encompasses our
political, social and economic aspirations."

Advocating workers' rights without regard to the fundamenal rights and
freedom for all, as Mr. Pang has done rather dishonestly, is narrow-sighted
at best and pathetic at worst.  In his greed-driven rush to protect his
petty business interests in my native country while deceiving the readers
as if his concerns were about workers' welfare and their rights to work,
Mr. Pang attempted, though unsuccessfully, to hold Burma and human rights
advocates responsible for apparently shrinking garment assembly lines.

Mr. Pang should, before long, realize that at the root of the problem in
Burma are the intransigent regime, SLORC, and foreign investors like
himself.  So long as greedy foreign investors bankroll tyrants in Burma
forming a symbiotic relationship, the plight of our workers will remain as
bleak as that of their fellow oppressed people.

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NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR: MYANMAR REPORTS DRUG SEIZURE 
IN NOVEMBER

MYANMAR authorities seized 114 kilograms of narcotic drugs in November, the
official newspaper "new light of MYANMAR" said.  The drugs included 5.8
kilograms of heroin.  In the same month, 377 people were arrested in 279
drug-related cases in the country, said the report.  according to official
statistics, 1,408 kilograms of narcotic drugs, including over 143 kilograms of
heroin, were seized in MYANMAR in the 11 months to November.

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NEW STRAITS TIMES: PASSPORT RING CRIPPLED, SEVEN SUSPECTS DETAINED
December 20, 1995 By Annie Freeda Cruez  (abridged)

KLANG, Tues. - Police have broken a ring masterminded by four Myanmar
brothers supplying forged Bangladeshi passports with the arrest of six
foreigners and a Malaysian here on Saturday.  The seven, who are members of the
"Four Dragon General Enterprise" gang, were picked up between midnight and 7am
from two houses in Jalan Sungai Rasah and one in Jalan Raja Bot.  The foreigners
comprise five Myanmar nationals including three of the four brothers and a
Bangladeshi.  The ring was believed to have commenced operations more than a
year ago selling forged Bangladesh passports to Myanmar citizens for RM400 each.
They also charge RM140 for services such as stamping the passports as requested.
measuring box. This is the fourth syndicate involved in fake passports which police 
have crippled over the past three months.  To date, Aziz said, police have arrested 
more than 40 foreigners and Malaysians involved in the sale of fake passports.

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XINHUA: MYANMAR TO INTRODUCE TEACHING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
December 19, 1995

   The  Myanmar government is implementing the task of teaching computer science
in all schools throughout the country.  To give students access to computer
science, the Myanmar government has arranged the use of apple computers in all
schools and a contract to purchase 3,000 computers for basic educational schools
has been signed according to official reports recently.  The Myanmar education
ministry has also arranged to conduct basic computer courses for teachers and
has brought out a total of 120 instructors in the last two courses, according to
today's "the New Light of Myanmar." Myanmar is endeavoring for development of
modern educational system for future generation and teaching of computer science
in schools is now a compulsory subject.

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BKK POST: RANGOON PORT TO BE EXPANDED
December 19, 1995

Singapore's Allied Container Services Pte Ltd and the Port 
Authority of Burma will jointly expand and operate Burma's 
largest container port in Rangoon. The port will eventually 
be able to handle 3,500 containers at any one time. Work is 
expected to be completed within six months.

ASC holds 49 percent of the shares in the project. The port, 
which handles all of Burma's exports and more than 90 percent 
of its imports, has experienced growth of 20-40 percent in 
conventional cargo and 70-80 percent in container cargo in 
the past five years. 

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BKK POST: MANDALAY AIRPORT
December 19, 1995

Burma's Transport Ministry and Italian-Thai Development Plc 
of Bangkok signed a provisional agreement last week to design 
and build an international airport in Mandalay. No details of 
the value of the project or when it will start were available. (BP)

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BKK POST: BORDER CROSSING
December 19, 1995

India and Burma will open a second border crossing point soon 
at Champhai in the Indian state of mizoram, six months after 
the first stimulated trade worth $1 million at more in the 
northeastern Indian state of Manipur and Tamu in Burma.

The Hindustan Times said land routes and the resumption of 
flights between Calcutta and Rangoon two weeks ago, after a 
break of more than two decades, were expected to lead to 
rapid growth in trade. (BP)

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BURMA WEB PAGE: MYANMAR ACTORS & ACTRESSES

Found myanmar actors & actresses (selected) images on this URL
       http://www.myanmar.com/myanmar/gov/movie.html

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