emergency Mon refugees

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NSC BUSINESSMAN GAVE PRESSURE TO MON LEADERS
 
NSC advisor or businessman flew with holicopter to Payaw Mon refugee Camp 
on 22nd August and met Mon leaders including New Mon State Party 
President Nai Shwe Kyin and others Central Committee member.    Have not 
known yet who accompanied with him and where he got holicopter.  But he 
did not fly to the make-shift shelter of Mon refugees in New 
Halockhani.   A well placed sourced source said, in the meeting, there 
are arguments between Mon leaders and businessman regarding the third 
cease-fire talks hold from 27th June to 2 July in Southeast Military 
Command of Moulmein, capital of Mon State in Burma.   He condemned the 
Mon leaders because the cease-fire talks was in deadlock.   Mon leaders 
explained about the restricted discussions of SLORC representatives but 
he did not accept.
 
In the meeting with Mon leaders, he suggest three points as follow:
 
(1) 	To restrict the activities of Mon troops around the 
Three-Pagoda-Pass area and not to make any fighting with Burmese troops 
in this area.
 
(2)	On July 21, Burmese troops burnt down just three hous the Palai 
Dumpai village, one section of Halockhani Mon refugee camp, which 
refugees burnt down the rest their own houses by themself with a plan to 
make a trouble to SLORC delegate U Ohn Kyaw in ASEAN meeting hold in 
Bangkok, as Mon troops encouraged them.   For this incident, to make 
investigation for sure.
 
(3) 	The Mon refugees in New Halockhani make-shift cshelter must 
return back to their former camp of Burma side and stay under the orders 
of  Ninth Division of Thai Army situated in Kanchanaburi province.  
 
	In the meeting, he threatened to Mon leaders that he will arrest 
the Mon leaders who travel to Bangkok or in Thailand, if they refused to 
meet with SLORC for fourth cease-fire talk as quickly as.   For the time 
being, he said, he want to see Mon refugees return back to their former 
camp as quickly as.   He also accused Mon leaders that they stopped Mon 
refugees not to return back.   He asked Mon leaders to make an 
arrangement  for the meeting between the Mon refugees and the Commander 
of Infantry Battallion No. 61 of SLORC troops in Three-Pagoda-Pass.   The 
Mon refugees, over 6000 population, fled into Thai side of the border 
from Halockhani Camp of Burma side, after the SLORC Infantry Battallion 
No. 61  attacked and burnt down their houses on July 21.  SLORC troops 
also took 16 refugees as porter and hostages and escaped only five of 
them as camp source.  At the moment, the Mon refugees were blocked by 
Thai Border Patrol Police which got the orders from Ninth Division of 
Kanchanaburi, for transportation of food and medicine supplies.