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Burma-unrest-monks,lead : Burmese j
- Subject: Burma-unrest-monks,lead : Burmese j
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 20:20:00
Subject: Burma-unrest-monks,lead : Burmese junta accused of killing three monks
Burma-unrest-monks,lead : Burmese junta accused of
killing three monks
BANGKOK, April 2 (AFP) - The All Burma Young
Monks Union
(ABYMU) has accused the Burmese authorities of
killing three
monks and arresting 100 others during a wave of
communal arrest
that has swept the country.
In a statement received Wednesday in Bangkok, the
monks said
that demonstrations which began on March 16 were
continuing in
several cities.
The organisation, said to receive regular reports
from monks
inside Burma, blames military intelligence agents
for stirring up
trouble between Moslems and Buddhists to distract
monks from
their grievances against the junta in Rangoon.
The accusations have not been independently
confirmed.
Dozens of mosques and Moslem properties have been
vandalised
or destroyed and first degree security alerts
were reported to have
been called in five Burmese cities.
The ABYMU, whose history of political activism
stretches back to
the struggle for independence from Britain, was
declared illegal by
the previous military government, and is said to
have around 200
members living and working with ethnic groups on
Burma's
borders.