Request to Burma on Karen raids

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Request to Burma on Karen raids 
(Wassana Nanuam)

Bangkok Post
April 16, 1998

The Burmese army will be asked next month to prevent Democratic Karen
Buddhist Army raids on Karen refugees in Thailand.

The Thai military will make the request at the regional border committee
meeting in Kawthaung, Burma, on May 22.

The move came after Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, secretary 1 of the State Peace and
Development Council, suggested last month in talks with Gen Chettha
Thanajaro, the army chief, that Thailand execute renegade intruders.

Border problems along the Moei River and at Doi Lang in Chiang Mai as well
as drug smuggling across the border will also be discussed at the meeting,
a source added.

Present at the talks will be the newly-appointed commanders of the Third
Army and of Burma's southeast command.