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Demostration in front of Thai Ambas
Subject: Demostration in front of Thai Ambassy
Burmese Democratic Forces in India
Phone : 0091 11 3017172
Fax : 0091 11 3793397
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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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