Bangkok Post New (8/4/99)

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<bold>Missing Burmese already killed


	</bold>Mae Hong Son-Two Burmese soldiers reported missing since last
month have been killed, allegedly by guerrillas of the anti-Rangoon Shan
State Army, according to a border source.

	The killings of Sub-Lt Fuse Cape, 23, and Sgt Miew Kay, 22, of the 329th
Battalion were reported to local Thai authorities yesterday, the source
said. 

	The two, both belonging to a Muser tribe, were killed by SSA guerrillas
while returning form Mae Hong Son's Pang Mapha district, the source
said.

	Burma had asked the Thai-Burmese Border Coordination Committee in Mae
Hong Son to look for the two soldiers who had gone missing after crossing
the border on March 27 to celebrate the Muser's New Year festival. 

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