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Transfered Captain Kaung Zan Oo
Friend of Burma (Manipur)
Statement on transfered Captain Kaung Zan Oo
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2nd December 1997
The Friends of Burma (Manipur) is delighted to note that
Captain Kaung Zan Oo, Chairman of Tamu township count has
finally been transfered out form the strategic posting on
the Indo-Burma border area. This Captain was a dictator
incarnate... he claimed himself to be S-in..1, thereby
abrogating legislative, judicial and executive powers in
his single person. The hard, sincere and concerted afforts
of Manipuri as well as Burmese democracy forces has
ultimately been bewared by the replacement of this
dehumanized, dictatorial SLORC Captain. However, till
latest reports.
He has not handed over power to new arrival, a military
major whose identity is not known yet. Facts about the
Captain Kaung Zan Oo received lately reveals the devilish
machinations of the man. Inspite of strong protest from
Tamu based traders and legal verdict against him, the
Captain adamantly went ahead with the construction of
ill-conceived Namphalong market complex near Border Gate
No.2. He did so because he could act and control all the
activities and people in this market take primitive
emperor.
It is reported that before the construction of market.
Captain Kaung Zan Oo collected various amounts as advance
form Tamu local traders promising them shop-plots after
contraction. But once the market was constructed, he kept
all the strategically important and good plots to himself
and finally distributed them to big traders form Mandalay
and other areas by receiving bribery of 15.000 to lakh
kyats per plot. Thus, Tamu trading community was seriously
affected and precisely for this reason that when the
Namphalong market was burnt down, they felt that they had
got noetic justice.
Another report says that Captain Kaung Zan Oo had received
50 million kyats from the SLORC's high authority to
sabotage the anti-drug Satyagraha programme in last
October. In fact, Captain Kaung Zan Oo had half-succeeded
in this plan by buying and bribing certain rested interests
on the indian side. These people could only create some
minor hurdies but ultimately their plan was defeated
because of the determination of Manipur's people, including
the strong support of AMSU and the different communities of
Moreh. This feature of Captain is said to be a major cause
for his transfer. Though no definite evidence is available,
it is also reported that he was deeply hand in glove with
the drug mafia operating on the Indo-Burma border.
Lastly, Friends of Burma (Manipur) taken note of the change
of command in the military junta. FOV feels that the change
of name from SLORC to SPDC (State peace and development
Council) is a farsical attempt of the junta to befool Burma
people and internation community. What the military rulers
really seem to want is not real democracy, but cosmatic
democracy under the thumb of junta boots and guns. FOB
feels that only a meaningful, genuinely honest and sincer
dialogue between military rulers and the national league
for demoncracy, NLD under the leadership of Nobel laurate
AUNG SAN SUU KYI can bring about democracy in Burma.
O.Joy Singh
Convenor
Friends of Burma (Manipur)
News and Information Bureau, All Burma Students League
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