Extra-Judicial Killing of Burmese N (r)

[eyar@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: Extra-Judicial Killing of Burmese National in Thailand

Subject; TO STOP ABUSES OF THAI AUTHORITIES ON PEOPLE FROM BURMA IN
THAILAND

We, ABSDO would like to urge international activists and people from
Burma in overseas to pay attention on the mistreatments of Thai
authorities on students,activists and Burma people in Thailand.
There were sevreal cases which Thai authorities abuse on people from
Burma in Thailand sach as killing, rape,beaten,detain without trail and
depotation.
There is no rights for people from Burma including burmese students in
Thailand to claim in legeal way at court.They desprately need legeal
protection to avoid these kind of abuses.
 
So, We all should call Thai government to stop these kind of abuses on
people from Burma in Thailand.

in solidarity,

Nyi Nyi Soe(Par Parr)
International coordinator
ABSDO
AUSTRALIA
PO box 83, Lidcombe PO
Lidcombe, NSW 2141

carol@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> From: Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma <carol@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Extra-Judicial Killing of Burmese National in Thailand
> 
>         Thai Action Committee for Democoracy in Thailand (TACDB)
> 
>                         URGENT PRESS RELEASE!
> 
> Extrajudicial Killing of Burmese National by Thai Authorities in Mahachai,
> Sumut Sakhon Province, Thailand.
> 
> Bangkok, 26th June, 1997.
> 
> On the evening of the 17th June, 1997, 22 year old Win Htwe, a Burmese
> National from Karen State, was hiding from police in bushes close to the
> main river bank when he was arrested and then beaten with a stick around the
> head and the shoulder areas by a Thai police officer. Eyewitnesses to the
> event, both Thai and Burmese nationals, saw the police officer in question,
> who was wearing a white T-shirt with the number 6 printer on the back in
> large letters, pick up the Win Htwe's body, shake it, and then throw it down
> into the bushes. The police officer then left the scene of the killing to
> transport four Burmese nationals he had previously arrested in the area to
> Tatckalaung Police Kiosk, where the accepted bribes from Burmese nationals
> in return for not sending them into more long term detention at the local
> police station.
> 
> Win Htwe was beaten to death by a Thai police officer for being a Burmese in
> Thailand. He had fled to Thailand from the civil war in Karen State and was
> working as a registered seaman out of Mahachai port.
> 
> Win Htwe was in a group of Burmese men and women who were trying to escape
> the arrest and harassment of the local authorities. Thai Police officers
> routinely round up Burmese nationals, regardless of whether they possess
> legal documentation for their stay in Thailand, to extort money from them.
> Exploitation of Burmese nationals at the hands of Thai Authorities in
> Mahachai in Sumut Sakhon province is rife and the situation is reaching a
> crisis point. The presence of such abuse and exploitation is a major blemish
> on Thailand's international image as a civil and democratic society.
> 
> Khun Laddawan Tantivitayapitak, coordinator of the Bangkok-based
> organization, Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma (TACDB) stated
> that "...the human rights and humanitarian issues raised by the presence of
> so many Burmese nationals along our borders as refugees, as well as the
> presence of the anti-SLORC pro-democracy movement and the many migrant
> Burmese workers inside our borders should be one of the Kingdom's gravest
> concerns at the moment.".
> 
> She went on to say that "...Thai official treatment of Burmese nationals
> within our borders and especially our governments position on Burma, is the
> next biggest impediment to resolving the problems of the Burmese, after the
> brutal military junta itself. The systematic abuse, torture, arbitrary
> arrest and detention, summary deportation and forced repatriation of Burmese
> nationals must cease in order for us to find a long-term, durable solution
> to the problem".
> 
> For more information or further comment please contact Adisorn Kerdmongkol
> (Thai) or Khin Pyu Win (English) on (+662) 216 4463 or email
> <carol@xxxxxxxxxx>. Photograph available.
> ******************************************************
> Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma (TACDB),
> 328 Phayathai Road,
> Rajthevee,
> Bangkok 10400,
> THAILAND.
> 
> tel/fax:  (+662) 216 4463
> email:    carol@xxxxxxxxxx
> ******************************************************