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The BurmaNet News: February 28, 1996
Issue #352

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THE NATION: HELD FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY
THE NATION: TIGHTER BORDER PATROL
BKK POST: 300 BURMESE ROUNDED UP
BKK POST: SULAK: UNFETTERED TRADE COULD CAUSE DISASTER 

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THE NATION: HELD FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY

February 28, 1996

POLICE have arrested 272 Burmese in the northern border town 
of Mae Sot for illegal, police said yesterday.

The raid, taking place in a slum behind Radio Thailand in 
Tak's Mae Sot district, was conducted by a 50-member task 
force comprising the 346th unit of the Border Patrol Police 
and Tak immigration police, said deputy superintendent for 
immigration Chinaphat Tansrisakul, who led the force.

"These illegal Burmese aliens would be employed in 
undocumented factories. Employers find illegal immigrant 
workers attractive because they do not have to apply for 
work permits and pay accident insurance for them, as 
stipulated by the Interior Ministry's regulations," he said.

The Burmese are divided into two groups-those with official 
indentification papers and those without, Chinaphat said.

Burma is willing to allow back only those with 
documentation, he said. Burmese authorities simply said they 
would have to run checks on those without IDs before 
allowing them to return.

Chinaphat, however, said he planned to deport any illegal 
immigrants without proper indentification back to Burma. 
(TN)

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THE NATION: TIGHTER BORDER PATROL

February 28, 1996

BORDER patrol police will get tough with illegal immigrants 
along the Thai-Burmese border, Interior Permanent Secretary 
Aree Wongsearaya said yesterday.

His remarks came after police reported that a group of 
bandits believed to be members of Khun Sa's army crossed the 
border and robbed Thais travelling on a highway in Mae Hong 
Son province on Sunday night.

He said the police would need to adopt stricter measures 
against illegal immigrants and push them across the border 
quickly. Bandits who rob Thais would be severely dealt with, 
he warned.

"We have to react violently if they are violent to our 
people. If they shoot, we will shoot back. If they kill our 
people, we will kill them too," Aree said.

The permanent secretary said he ordered the border patrol 
police to step us security measures. He said he already 
reported the highway robbed to Interior Minister Banharn 
Silpa-archa. (TN)

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BKK POST: 300 BURMESE ROUNDED UP

February 28, 1996

Almost 300 Burmese were rounded up in police raids on rented 
houses early yesterday and deported. Among the 273, who had 
been working illegally in a picture frame works on the Asian 
Highway, were 162 men and 111 women.

In a related operation, two men were charged with 
facilitating illegal entry by foreigners. Khwanchai 
Chamchan, 34, and Annop Krathon, 31, were arrested after 35 
illegal immigrants, among them 12 women, were found in a 
pick-up and a six-wheel truck they had been driving. The 
suspects said they had been hired for 10,000 baht each to 
take the Burmese to Kong Krailat, Sukhothai. (BP)

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BKK POST: SULAK: UNFETTERED TRADE COULD CAUSE DISASTER
February 28, 1996

Trade and investment will cause a social disaster if human 
rights are ignored, social activist Sulak Sivaraksa said 
yesterday. The Asia-Europe meeting will emphasise economic 
issues and ignore human rights abuses born of trade and 
investment, he said after the opening of the Asia-Europe NGO 
Conference.

?We have to organise this NGO conference to reflect the 
truth to the Asian and European leaders,? he said. ?Poverty 
is still prevalent in Asia despite remarkable economic 
growth and national leaders need to understand this.?

Mr Sulak said the meeting ?Is little more than the 
resurrection of European colonialism? to exploit Asia once 
again. Modern-day European colonists are trying to expand 
their power in the form of trade and consumerism, he said.

?Currently, the world?s largest arm dealers come from 
European countries,? he said. Referring to suggestions the 
Government had threatened to obstruct the conference for 
fear the human rights issue would be raised during ASEM, Mr 
Sulak said human rights is an issue with no boundaries and a 
worthly challenge to governments.

He condemned the Government?s eagerness to trade with and 
invest in Burma, which, he said, had led to the Rangoon 
junta?s brutal suppression of minorities along the Thai-
Burmese border. (BP

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