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Demostration in front of Thai Ambas



Subject:       Demostration in front of Thai Ambassy


                    Burmese Democratic Forces in India
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                            M E M O R A N D U M
To

Hon'ble Prime Minister
Government of Royal Thailand

Through / Ambassador
          Royal Thailand Embassy
          Chanakya
          New Delhi

                                        Date : 18th August
1997
His Excellency Prime Minister,

We,   Burmese  democratic  forces  in  India,  express  our
anguish  and disappointment  on the  reported plan  of Thai
Government to hand over Mr.  San Naing (a) Ye Thi Ha to the
military government in Burma.  Mr.  San Naing was a student
leader  who actively participated in  the 1988 nation- wide
uprising in Burma.  He left for the Thai-Burma border after
the  1988 September Coup  to continue the  struggle for the
restoration  of democracy in  Burma.  He was  involved in a
non-violent  hijacking  episode  of a  Burmese  airplane to
Bangkok  in 1989 to draw the international attention to the
struggle  of Burmese people.   He was arrested  by the Thai
police  and served his jail term in Thailand.  However,  he
was  arrested  again for  his alleged  crime  in a  plan to
assassinate Burmese generals in 1995.  Since that time,  he
has been in Bangkok Jail.

We  came to  know from our  informed sources  that the Thai
Government  is planning to hand over  Mr.  San Naing to the
Burmese  military junta in an exchange of 50 Thai fishermen
who  are being jailed  in Burma.  In  June 1997,  a Burmese
military colonel, namely Soe Thein, along with some military
officials  from Thai National Security Council came and met
Mr  San Naing in the jail and put him pressure to come back
to Burma and surrender to the authorities of Burma. Mr. San
Naing  refused to  surrender to  the pressure.   He will be
immediately jailed if he goes back to Burma. And his life is
in danger.

Therefore,   we strongly condemn the Thai Government if the
news  of deportation is true. We, Burmese democratic forces
in India, request the Thai Government :

1)  Not to hand over Mr.  San Naing to the Burmese military
government
2) To issue a statement on the whereabouts of Mr. San Naing
3) To provide political asylum to Mr. San Naing and all the
Burmese political activists in Thailand

Sincerely,

Burmese Pro-democracy activists in India


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