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27 September 1999

News Brief

Wa families Resettling Along the Thai Border
The ceasefire Wa group's soldiers stationed along the Thai border opposite 
Chiangmai and Chiangrai Provinces are bringing down their families from he 
north to resettle in Mongton and Mongsart townships of Eastern Shan State, 
said Maihoong, S.H.A.N.'s source at the border.

On 8 September, 12 families numbering 56 people were transported from 
Mongpiang to Mongton in 8 four-wheelers and taken to Namhookhun, a village 
5 km east of Poongpakhem, near BP-1.

They needed to be in time for this year's poppy-planting season, said the 
source.


Extra-judicial Killings Among Junta Troops
On 26 August 1999, 4 officers and men from company 4, Infantry Battalion 65 
in Mongton were put in the guardhouse for drinking and fighting among 
themselves.

They were.
1. Captain Than Htoon, 39 (Deputy company commander)
2. Sgt. Soe Thaung, 40
3. Cpl. Soe Than, 37
4. Pvt. Htun Hlaing, 30
The four were reported to have connived with the jailer, Mya Thaung, to 
make an escape. But on their way to the Thai border, a disagreement arose 
among them, which resulted in Mya Thaung's killing of his fellow deserters.

However, on his return to unit, he was tied up, beaten and dragged until he 
died of his wounds, reported Maihoong on 3 September.

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