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At 09:13 PM 4/7/97, you wrote:
>From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Julien Moe)
>Subject: Communist party members surrender in Burma
>
>Burma-surrender : Communist party members
> surrender in Burma
>
> BANGKOK, April 7 (AFP) - Nearly 300 former
>members of the
> Communist Party Burma (BCP) active in thge
>country's western
> Rakhine State have surrendered to ruling Burmese
>military
> authorities, official Burmese radio reported
Monday.
>
> A total of 289 BCP members, including family
>members, led by
> Saw Tun Oo, Chairman of the BCP's Rakhine region
>gave up
> earlier to immigration headquarters in the
>western Burmese border
> town of Maungdaw with a number of assorted arms
and
> ammunition, Radio Rangoon said in a dispatch
>monitored here.
>
> At the welcoming ceremony, held in Mongdaw
>township Monday
> morning, Saw Tun Oo said his group had decided to
>end their
> guerrilla operations in exchange for Rangoon's
>pledge of
> development assistance, according to the radio.
>
> The ceremony was presided over by Lieutenant
>General Khin
> Nyunt, powerful secretary general of the State
>Law and Order
> Restoration Council (SLORC), and Major General
>Aung Htwe,
> commander of the Rakhine region army, it said.
>
> BCP and ethnic-based armed groups have been
>fighting against
> central governments in Rangoon since Burma gained
> independence from Britain in 1948.
>
>