NEWS - State of Emergency Decreed i

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Subject: NEWS - State of Emergency Decreed in Burma

15 October 1999

No: 10 - 14

State of Emergency Decreed in Burma

DIN, S.H.A.N.'s northern Shan State source, reported the whole country
is 
under a state of emergency as decreed by Rangoon authorities since the
raid 
of the Burmese embassy in Bangkok by five armed students.

For the second time during the year, Burma has undergone a state of 
emergency that began on 2 October, the day after five students fighters
put 
the Burmese embassy in Thailand under siege, said DIN. "There was only a 
day interval between the first and the second. The first time, it
started 
in August in anticipation of the Four Nines disturbances against the
regime 
and lasted for two months until the end of September".

On 10 October, each township peace and development committee met to
listen 
to the junta's version of the Bangkok siege and to plan for preparations 
against possible attack by Thailand and 'minions' (a term for exiled 
activists).

Members of the Red Cross Society, fire brigades and Union Solidarity and 
Development Association (USDA) in each township were directed to keep an 
eye on "suspicious characters and behaviors" and report to the
authorities 
on any hourly basis.

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