BURMESE PASSPORT HOLDERS ARRESTED I

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Subject: BURMESE PASSPORT HOLDERS ARRESTED IN THAILAND

	BURMESE PASSPORT HOLDERS ARRESTED IN THAILAND

About noon of yesterday(11.12.95), 25, real and valid passport holders
were rounded up by Thai immigration officers at Oscar Apartment
in Petchburi soi 39 and they were brought up to IDC  but not in
the cells there. Among them 9 were released because it found
after interrogation that their ships have been anchoring in
Thailand at present . The remains have been kept up to late
evening although they testified their valid visas and documents.
Immigration officers threatened that they must whether be sent
back to Burma or be forced to leave the country unless they
comply to pay 3000 Baht for each. Among those 16, two were women.
But all of them defied not to pay the ransom and they all didn't
realized why they were being asked for. May be they were first
victims of ASEAN summit here. 
     
At late evening, they all were released without giving
complaint why they were being detained for. Moreover they
couldn't get any sympathy and assistance from Burmese Embassy in
Bangkok. How to do Burmese Embassy staffs take care of their own
people? 


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