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To whom it may confuse! (Correction



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To:   Okkar
Cc:  burmanet
Subject:  re:To whom it may confuse
Date: 1999-10-22 01:56
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OKKAR: Sorry for the delay.  I was
listing some stories but I thought I
should not post all atonce. This is the
first part for your taste.
Sincerely
Vum Son
How and Why the
  Burmese Army Murdered Four Chin
Christians

A Burma Army battalion Kha-lah-yah unit
89, commanded by Lt. Col. Thurah Sein
Win was stationed in Phailen, a border
village at the Burma-India border, in
the Homalin district.  In July 1993 a
soldier from the Army unit disappeared
with four rifles, leaving behind a
letter saying that he was leaving
because he was unhappy with life in the
Burmese Army.

Subsequently, the Army unit accused the
Christian community of Phailen of buying
the arms from the soldier with church
funds, to help the anti-Burmese SLORC
resistance movement, the Kuki National
Army. The Kuki are Chin who live in the
Indo-Burma border areas (in the
Kale-Kabaw Valley extending to Tamu
(Sagaing Division).

The army unit arrested several leaders
of the community and kept them in the
army camp lock-up. On August 2, 1993,
they interrogated one of the prisoners,
Pastor Zang Kho Let. When the Pastor's
answers did not please the
interrogators, the army personnel beat
him with rifle butts or sticks that
eventually broke almost all of his bones
after two days of interrogation.  They
cut open his mouth to the neck and told
him "We cut open your mouth so that you
will no longer preach". In the two days
that they tortured him, Pastor Zang Kho
Let never admitted to using the church
fund to help the resistance movement or
that he was involved in helping the
armed resistance.  The soldiers, NCO's,
and officers tortured the pastor with
the intent to kill but he was still
alive after two days of their inhuman
brutality. When the torturers reported
to their commanding officer, Col. Thura
Sein Win, the condition of the pastor,
the colonel ordered them to tighten a
plastic bag over his head.  (Thura is an
award given for bravery, like the
torture of the preacher.)

After Pastor Zang Kho Let died, they
dragged his lifeless body out of the
school building and shot him.  With a
bullet wound in his body, the Burmese
army unit claimed that they shot the
pastor because he was trying to escape.

The soldiers brought the dead body of
Zang Kho Let back in the school building
and the leaders of the community, who
were arrested to witness the gruesome
state of the body.  They were told to
feel the bones, which were all broken.
They were told, "If you do not tell us
the 'truth' and if you do not admit that
you helped the KNA, you will face the
same fate."

The headman of the village, Zang Kho
Ngam, farmers Ngam Khai, and Thawng Kho
Lun admitted to helping the resistance
movement in order to escape torture and
death.  Nonetheless, they were tortured.
It took seven days for the three of them
to die; they died a slow death.  The
soldiers cut and burned their skin.
They poured salt directly into their
open sores.  The soldiers zealously
repeated the torture that they had just
meted out to Pastor Zang Kho Let.  When
the two farmers died, the soldiers again
dragged the bodies outside of the school
building and shot.  They buried the
headman Zang Kho Ngam alive.

Burmese officers ordered seven ethnic
Naga soldiers to carry out the torture
of the villagers under their
supervision. At that time, the National
Socialist Council of Nagaland(NSCN) and
the Chin (Kuki) community in the
neighbouring Manipur of India, were at
war to each other. The NSCN was an
insurgent group, fighting for the
independence of the Naga in India.  When
the NSCN demanded taxes from the Kuki
communities in Manipur to support their
movement, the Chin refused to support
the NSCN. The Chin and Naga were both
Baptist Christians. Their quarrel
escalated to mass killings during the
early 1990s when they competed to
control the drug road(Tamu-Imphal
Highway). The Chin took control of
Mohree, the town opposite Tamu on the
Burma side, the main gate of the drug
coming from Burma. It was a war in which
Chin innocent children including babies,
women and older people were slaughtered,
whole villagers were shot and their
throats slashed. Villages were burnt,
and leaders of the Chin community were
murdered. The Indian government could
not control the killings because the
Naga had the upperhand and by 1995 over
600 Chin had been murdered.

The Burmese use Naga soldiers to torture
the Chin village leaders purposefully
exploiting the ethnic conflict between
the Chin and the Naga, and the Burman
achieved their goal of bringing hatred
between Union citizens. This is the
Burmese Army+s way to national unity.

The soldiers placed the rest of the
village men, whom they arrested, in jail
for two years, during which they
plundered the village, killing all the
domestic animals they could find,
including chickens, pigs, and cows.
They robbed the church of its fund of
over two hundred thousand kyats.

The Burmese Army's project was to settle
or force relocate ethnic Burman to the
Tamu area because Tamu area had a Chin
majority. With these scary and brutal
tactics they forced the Chin to leave
the area.  They created new Burmese
villages such as Aungsiya and Bandoola.
Chin villagers from the area were forced
to build new houses for the Burman who
were relocated from the Monywa and
Mandalay areas. They were alloted farm
lands that previously belonged to the
Chin. The Chin were then forced to leave
the area.

-----Original Message-----
<OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx>
To: suantak@xxxxxx <suantak@xxxxxx>;
chokhlei@xxxxxxxxxxx
<chokhlei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: burmanet-l@xxxxxxx
<burmanet-l@xxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: To whom it may confuse!


>Hey Vum Son,
>
>   You said that there had been many
priests and pastors murdered
>by the Burmese Army. I havn't heard
that any priest was murdered.
>Can you please name these priests,
their Parish  and Doiceses? If
>you can name I may know them because I,
as an ex-seminarian,  know
>most of  the priests. Especially the
priests and Bishops who were learning at
>St. Joseph's Minor Seminary (the only
seminary of our country in late 60s
>and early 70s) were my classmates or my
friends.
>
>ok
>
>In a message dated 10/16/99 11:53:12 AM
Pacific Daylight Time, suantak@xxxxxx
>writes:
>
><< Once again the Burmese military
sought
> justification to terrorize Chin
villages
> with the excuse of chasing the Chin
> National Front.  Even if its true that
> the Chin Nationa Front had looted and
> killed the Buddhist monk, it is the
> first time time that a Buddhist monk
is
> killed in the Chin State. But there
had
> been many priests and pastors murdered
> by the Burmese Army.  This kind of
> violence is clearly the handwriting of
> the Burmese Army. The speciality of
the
> Burmese Army is to use the Ne Win
> doctrine.  The Ne Win Doctrine is to
> breed hatred and insurgency so that
the
> Burmese Army has a free hand to
> terrorize the Non-Burman.  By
declaring
> the non-Burman nationals as
seperatists
> and only the Burmese Army can unite
the
> peoples of the Union of Burma, the
> Burmese Army hope to receive sympathy
> and understanding from the general
> Burman.   The general public is more
> informed than what the military
thought.
> That is why the general public is not
> accepting the military. The people
have
> to boycott the military.  The military
> should be abolished.
>
> Vum Son >>
>




-----Original Message-----
To: Okkar <okkar66129@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx <OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx>;
suantak@xxxxxx <suantak@xxxxxx>;
chokhlei@xxxxxxxxxxx
<chokhlei@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Nyi LWin
<nyinyilwin8@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: burmanet-l@xxxxxxx
<burmanet-l@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: To whom it may confuse!
(Correction)


>Who is your shadow writer? Everybody
who were
>continuously following the news in SCB
knows
>that you IQ is much much lower than
this
>posted message. Ha...Ha...
>
>ok
>
>
>>
>>
>>This kind of prejudice, an attitude in
a negative way,
>>turns up by an illegitimate authority,
a blind
>>loyalist to dictators to whom he sees
as superior, is
>>quite natural. The fact is the
authoritarian regime
>>does not tolerate any criticism.
Because what they
>>perceive the state violence and state
restriction over
>>the majority people is "privilege,"
believing in
>>ordinary citizens as subhuman and born
to obey. But
>>the majority people who are under the
repression
>>always seek for their freedom. As a
result, millions
>>of people came out to the streets and
called for
>>democracy in 1988. And again, million
of people voted
>>for the NLD in 1990 election because
they were not
>>happy with the military rule at all.
>>
>>Among those people who supported
democracy I was all
>>for one and one for all. That's why I
have joined the
>>students led democracy movements since
1988. What I
>>believe are 'pluralistic opinion,
legitimate power,
>>freedom of expression, freedom of
speech, and freedom
>>from wants, and equal justice and
tranquillity.' I am
>>still struggling for it, and I will do
it until I
>>reach it to the people and for the
people.
>>
>>I do not wonder why a low ranking
military spy
>>misperceives "Cronyism and Nepotism"
as "Fruit",
>>according to his term.  But what I
perceive the
>>"Fruit" is "crime" and "bribery."
>>
>>There was no fruit that my people in
Burma, including
>>our family, enjoyed under the BSPP
regime. What I saw
>>my Dad doing was an "Earning." He got
what he was
>>working for. In return, the BSPP
provided an old car,
>>a house, a small amount of salary, and
a small amount
>>of ration. The BSPP sometime openly
told us, "Ning
>>Ngan Dow Ka Chen Myint Dar," (The
State's Special
>>Distribution). After he retired, the
regime took back
>>the car and the house but provided 800
Kyat for a
>>month, about 2 dollars in U.S.. It was
never enough to
>>feed a family.
>>
>>It was quick simple that the
totalitarian regime
>>(BSPP-SLORC_SPDC), almost total
control of a people by
>>a group of illegitimate officers,
controlled the
>>education, business, religion,
politics, support, and
>>etc. in order to prolong their power.
Thus, no
>>independence car dealers, real estates
realtors, and
>>financing banks were existed at that
time. So there
>>was no channel out, and almost all the
regime's
>>servants had to accept so-called
"State Special
>>Distribution".
>>
>>But if there were a democratic
government, a
>>free-market economy, and an equal
justice, every
>>citizen would enjoy and got what they
earned for.
>>
>>I am as I am, a democracy activist,
human rights
>>activist, justice activist, woman
rights activist,
>>student activist, and
anti-BSPP-SLORC-SPDC activist.
>>My mission in the U.S is to bring the
SPDC down from
>>the power. It will be.
>>
>>=====
>>
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>
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