Information Sheet N0.A-0775 (I)

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                      MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE
                                           YANGON

                                   Information Sheet
                     N0.A-0775 (I)         24th January 1999 	

(1)		Secretary(1) Receives National Race Leaders of Kachin State Special
Region(1)

		Chairman of Work Committee for Development of Border Areas and National
Races Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt
received national race leader of Kachin State Special Region (1) U Za Khun
Ting Ring and members U Nyein Aye, U Zaw Hlaing and U Saung Ting at Defence
Services Guest House on Inya Road at 4 pm on 23 January. They discussed
education, transport, agriculture, mining, wood-based industry and regional
development. 

(2)		NLD Members Collude with Expatriate Insurgent PDF, Spread Anti-Government
Pamphlets to Incite Riots

		The authorities concerned have exposed the case of the anti-government
elements who dropped and distributed instigative pamphlets in the toilets of
the Institute of Medicine 2, on buses and at bus stops, in public parks in
various ways during  November and December 1998.  Khin Soe, an organizer of
PDF expatriate group and incharge of Yay Township (South), Mon State, was
apprehended together with the instigative pamphlets and propaganda leaflets on
22-12-98, and the NLD members in the country, who distributed the instigative
pamphlets in collusion with the PDF members to disrupt stability of the State
and community peace and tranquillity, were also exposed and apprehended.  

		It is learnt that the so-called PDF meaning People's Defence Force (Burma),
was formed as headquarters at Thai border area in 1990 and exists as the
expatriate insurgent group to carry out anti-government activities under the
pretext of democracy; the chairman of the PDF is expatriate insurgent U Sein
Mya's nephew Kyaw Htet and the secretary is a man called Shwe Thway, and the
group is collaborating with KNU insurgents; PDF secretary Shwe Thway gave
training on political defiance ways, sabotage and propaganda spreading ways to
organizers Zaw Win, Khin Soe and Win Kywe of Yay and assigned them to recruit
new  members in the country and exert control from behind in subversive
activities to incite riotous upheavals. It is exposed that Zaw Win is an
executive of Yay Township NLD, and in collusion with Yay Township NLD's

ward/village organizers Khin Soe and Win Kywe, distributed copies of Khit
Pyaing Journal, instigative pamphlets, propaganda leaflets, and anti-
government propaganda cassettes to NLD members; in July 1998, they stuck and
hung instigative pamphlets in various parts of Yay to cause panic among
residents of Yay;  they wrote and sent concocted stories to Khit Pyaing
Journal, RFA broadcasting station and fake Myanma Alin newspaper published by
the expatriates; in July 1998, Palaw Township  NLD party organizer U Than Nwe,
youth organizer Thitsa and representative elect U Kyi Shwe's son Nyein Chan
instigated basic education students to take to the streets and hold riotous
protests in Palaw Township and they also distributed instigative pamphlets in
Myeik, Dawei and Kawthoung. It is also learnt that Khin Soe often brought and
distributed  in Yangon various instigative leaflets sent to him by PDF; in so
doing, he himself distributed them at the bus-stops and on buses and asked his
associate NLD members to do the same; NLD in collusion with the expatriate
terrorists' PDF group distributed instigative leaflets to disrupt stability
and peace of the State and was also engaged in subversive acts after making
contracts with expatriate terrorists; Khin Maung Kyi, member of Mon State NLD
EC and Vice-Chairman of Yay Township NLD went to Thai border area and made
contacts with PDF secretary Shwe Thway and group. It is learnt that effective
legal action will be taken against PDF members and NLD members who had
violated the laws to panic the public and disrupt peace and stability of the
State making contacts and colluding with expatriate terrorist organization
outside the country.

(3)		45th Conference of MMA Continues

		The 45th Conference of Myanmar Medical Association  continued at the meeting
hall of MMA on Theinbyu Street for  the second day on 23 January, attended by
departmental officials, senior military medical officers of Ministry of
Defence, chairman and EC members of MMA( Central), representatives of States
and Divisions, Myanmar doctors resident abroad and guests. The morning session
was presided over by professor U Myint Maung Maung and seven papers were
presented. A meeting between EC members of MMA (Central) and Singaporean
Medical Association took place at the meeting hall of MMA at 10:30  am. It
focused  on the works of medical associations.A dinner in honour of the
delegates to 45th Conference of Myanmar Medical Association was hosted at MMA
building on Theinbyu Road at 7 pm on 23 January attended by Chairman of
National Health Committee Secretary-1 of the State peace and Development
Council Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt.

(4)		Singapore, Myanmar Neuro Surgeons Perform Surgeries

		Neuro Surgeon Dr Prem Pilloy of Mount Elizabeth Hospital of Singapore
performed neurological surgeries at Defence Services General Hospital on 23
January in cooperation with neuro surgeons of DSGH, Professors of Yangon
General Hospital, paediatrician of Defence Services Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Hospital and specialists and Head of Anaesthetics Department of DSGH and
specialists. Four patients received surgical treatment on 23 January and all

are in good condition now.

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