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NEWS - 33 long-neck Karens rescue
- Subject: NEWS - 33 long-neck Karens rescue
- From: BurmaJapan@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 11:51:00
CRIME Section of the Bangkok Post
33 long-neck Karens rescued
Chiang Mai - Some 33 long-neck
Karens, kidnapped so that they
could be displayed to tourists,
have been freed.
Police rescued the hilltribe
villagers, all women and children,
when they raided Thana Farm in
Mae Ai.
Farm owner Thana Narkluang
charged tourists 150 baht per
person to look at the Karens.
The villagers received 10 baht a
day and were not allowed to leave
the farm.
Two of them are thought to have
fallen ill and died at the farm.
They were abducted from Ban Nai
Soi camp in Mae Hong Son over
18 months ago, according to
deputy governor Phayoon
Meethongkham.
Refugee camp officials are
thought to have been involved in
the abductions.
A source said it would not have
been possible to take the Karens
out of the camps unnoticed,
especially in view of police
checkpoints on the route from
Mae Hong Son to Chiang Mai.
© The Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd. All rights reserved 1998
Free Burma Note:
Please note above that the Camp authorities may be involved