BKK POST: Request to Burma on Kare

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April 16, 1998


                                     



                                 BORDER

              Request to Burma
              on Karen raids 

              Wassana Nanuam

              The Burmese army will be asked next month to prevent
              Democratic Karen Buddhist Army raids on Karen refugees in
              Thailand.

              The Thai military will make the request at the regional border
              committee meeting in Kawthaung, Burma, on May 22.

              The move came after Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, secretary 1 of the
              State Peace and Development Council, suggested last month in
              talks with Gen Chettha Thanajaro, the army chief, that Thailand
              execute renegade intruders.

              Border problems along the Moei River and at Doi Lang in
              Chiang Mai as well as drug smuggling across the border will also
              be discussed at the meeting, a source added.

              Present at the talks will be the newly-appointed commanders of
              the Third Army and of Burma's southeast command.