Major Sai Pauk,CEC(UWSP),Assassinat

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Major Sai Pauk, Central Committee Member of United Wa Solidarity Party
(UWSP),                            Assassinated

	Major Sai Pauk, UWSP Officer for Alliance Relations, was shot in the head
twice, killing him instantly, at about 9-30 p.m. on January 7, 1998, as he
was about to enter his car after leaving a wedding reception, at the
Empress Hotel, in Chiangmai.
	
	Major Sai Pauk attended the Meh-tha-raw-ta Nationalities Seminar as UWSP
representative and signed the Meh-tha-raw-ta Agreement on behalf of  the
UWSP. Additionally, he was elected to serve as one of the 6 members on the
"Committee for Maintenance of the Meh-tha-raw-ta Seminar Results".

	It was learnt that the reception was attended by UWSP representatives as
well as those of the Wa National Organization (WNO). The WNO had recently
held 3 rounds of talks, in 2 months, with the SLORC (currently SPDC), and
then it had to stop the process after the 3rd round, as it could not find
any reason to trust the SLORC.

	Speculations of those close to Major Sai Pauk strongly suspected SPDC
military clique, the military dictatorship of Burma, as being the culprit
of  the assassination.

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