Letter to Editor (The Nation) BKK S

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Subject: Letter to Editor (The Nation) BKK Sept 12

 
 LETTERS  to editor
 
Slorc's nasty secret
 
Tourists wonder why certain parts of the Thai-Burmese border smell so 
much. The heavy monsoon rain has washed away the earth along jungle 
tracks and dead bodies buried in shallow graves have surfaced. These 
are the remains of porters who tried to escape the Burmese soldiers under 
Slorc's direction. Porters were forced to acts as land mine sacrificials. 
They were forced to carry heavy ammunition boxes etc. and when they 
became too weak and ill and no longer useful to the soldiers, they were 
shot along the roadside and buried in shallow graves.  
 
Slorc is still blatantly forcing people; The railway project in the country 
town near the border is another example. The people are forced to labour 
and bear all personal costs, to do municipal work, construct pavements 
and roads etc. in front of their homes in the cities. Every free person in 
this world understands that it is the government's responsibility to 
perform such work and provide the people with such  
 
Mr Editor the world communities are not fools. Slorc cannot pull the rug 
over their faces any more. 
They will soon have to answer to all these atrocities.  
 
San Maung,   W. Australia