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Burma-surrender : Burma reports sur



Subject: Burma-surrender : Burma reports surrender of 67  insurgents


Burma-surrender : Burma reports surrender of 67
                            insurgents

                            BANGKOK, March 25 (AFP) - A total of 67
anti-government
                            guerrillas in Burma surrendered to the ruling
military authorities
                            last month, Burmese official radio reported
Tuesday. 

                            Those who surrendered included 54 Karen and two
Chin ethnic
                            minorities, nine militant pro-democracy students
from the All
                            Burma Students Democratic Front and two former
members of the
                            Burma Communist Party, Radio Rangoon said in a
broadcast
                            monitored here. 

                            The rebels gave themselves up with their weapons
to the
                            Burmese army in February, it added.

                            The student front was set up in the jungles
along the
                            Thai-Burmese border by pro-democracy students
who fled
                            Rangoon and other major cities after a bloody
military coup in
                            1988.