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detail on the muder of ABSDF member



Subject: detail on the muder of ABSDF member by DKBA



Press Release
April 4, 1996 
 
		Detail story of the murder of ABSDF member by DKBA 
 
	15 armed troops from joint troop of Slorc's LIB 301 under the
command of Division 88 and DKBA came and robbed the villagers from Mae La
village (Burma side), Tak province, Thailand at 11am on March 23, 1996. 
After their robbery , they arrested five villagers including two ABSDF
members and later killed one ABSDF member. 
	Among five villagers; Ko Khin Win , Ko Mya Win and Ko Nge were
villagers from Mae La village (Burma side) and Ko Aung Toe and Ko Aung
Aung were ABSDF members. Ko Aung Aung was killed on the same day of arrest
but the other four were released in the evening. 
	Ko Aung Aung , 25, was from Kyike Latt, Irrawaddy division in
Burma. He fled in 1989 to the Thai-Burmese border and became a member of
ABSDF Wankha camp.  According to Ko Nge, another ABSDF member and
eyewitness, DKBA troop took one video desk machine, 20" TV, one generator
and some other belongings from the two ABSDF members' house. These
students went to the village to earn fund for their camp from showing
video movies to the logging workers. 
	In the morning of next day, on March 24, another Slorc and DKBA
joint troops came back and burnt down the village. The renegade threatened
the villagers to move within five days, otherwise they would be killed. 
	The motive was believed to wipe out the who village whose
villagers are working in the illegal logging concession inside Burma. The
villagers had to pay bribe money to the Slorc troops in the region in
order to get working permission.  The troops would be transferred on April
2, 1996 with new troops so that the previous troop forced the village to
move in order not to leak their secret bribe deal with village.  All the
400 villagers fled into Thailand after the burning and they were
temporarily given shelter near Thai Mae La village inside Thailand. 
	 

ABSDF News Agency
ABSDF (DAWN GWIN)