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Its like, Zorro...
These guys are great, if they are what they say they are, real freedom
fighters. God, in this day and age, it seems like Everyone Has to be
part of a, a, group!
Good luck warriors!
Free Burma, the whole world is watching you!
You can even, here at CNN, listen to a Canadian hostage, from the
inside. The three frenchmen were probably either tourists, or
businessmen, and maybe they might just get dumped in the woods!
what an adventure to tell the french press when they come home.)
(CNN uses same photo hands up in the air to the sky gods)
http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/southeast/9910/01/thailand.embassy.04.ap/index.html
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WORLD
ASIA [Image] Thai officials negotiate with hostage-takers at embassy
NOW
October 2, 1999 [embassy]
east asia Web posted at: 6:56 a.m. HKT
southeast (2256 GMT) An unidentified person,
asia believed to be a hostage,
south asia BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- appears to surrender
inside the besieged
central asia Thai authorities pursued Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok
negotiations through the
australasia night Friday with a dozen on Friday
TIME ASIA young Myanmar dissidents who
ASIAWEEK took over their country's embassy in Bangkok at gunpoint
BIZ ASIA and seized about 30 hostages, including several
foreigners.
SPORTS ASIA
SHOWBIZ ASIA Hundreds of police surrounded the walled embassy
ASIA WEATHER compound, floodlit by special trucks brought in as night
TRAVEL ASIA fell. Senior police officials were bargaining with the
anti-government activists, offering to trade food and
U.S. water for the release of hostages.
LOCAL
POLITICS Bangkok police commander Lt. Gen. Wannarat Kotcharak said
WEATHER the hostages included three Frenchmen, two Malaysians,
one Canadian, one Singaporean, one Japanese and at least
BUSINESS five Thais, in addition to Myanmar diplomats. The
SPORTS foreigners were probably at the embassy to obtain visas.
TECHNOLOGY
SPACE Other tallies of the hostages and AUDIO
their nationalities varied An unidentified
HEALTH somewhat, with earlier reports
Canadian hostage
ENTERTAINMENT including a German and an American describes the
BOOKS among those held. Unconfirmed situation from
TRAVEL reports suggested some other people inside the embassy
were hiding within the compound.
FOOD
342 K/30 sec.
STYLE In a statement sent to news media, AIFF or WAV sound
NATURE the dissidents -- calling
IN-DEPTH themselves the Vigorous Burmese Gunshots are fired
Student Warriors -- demanded the during the
ANALYSIS release of all political prisoners
conversation with
myCNN in their military-ruled homeland, a the hostage
---------------- dialogue between Myanmar's
custom news pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu 446 K/50 sec.
Kyi and the military, and the AIFF or WAV sound
Headline News convening of an elected parliament.
brief
daily almanac The government of Myanmar, or ALSO
* Myanmar embassy
CNN networks Burma, has refused to negotiate siege a
CNN programs with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu departure for
Kyi or to convene the parliament
on-air legally elected in 1990. dissidents
transcripts
news quiz One of the dissidents said in a
phone call with a local radio station that they wanted a
CNN WEB helicopter to fly them and some hostages to the
SITES: Thai-Myanmar frontier, where the Myanmar rebel movement
CNNsi is based. Police said the issue had not been raised in
negotiations.
allpolitics
CNNfn Armed with rifles and grenades, the dissidents stormed
En Español through the embassy gate about 11 a.m. Friday, witnesses
em português said.
Svenska Oun Hompromee, the embassy gardener and one of three men
Norge who escaped the compound early Friday evening, said he
danmark and a Thai policeman working as a security guard were
accosted by four of the intruders, who forced the two men
TIME, INC. at gunpoint to take the dissidents to the ambassador's
SITES: office. The envoy had left the compound 30 minutes
earlier.
Oun said that he was able to sneak away as the students
gathered hostages, and he hid until he was able to
MORE SERVICES: escape.
video on
demand Police said they believed no hostages had been hurt,
video archive supporting claims made by the dissidents in communication
with local media.
audio on
demand In their prepared statement, however, the group warned
news email that if the Myanmar government doesn't heed their
services demands, "it is fully responsible for the consequences of
free email this action."
accounts
desktop MYANMAR Gunshots were heard several times
headlines in the early hours of the siege.
[Myanmar] Two dissidents fired off an
pointcast eight-shot salute in early
Myanmar, also known as afternoon as they took down the
DISCUSSION: Burma, won Myanmar flag and raised a red
message boards independence from standard emblazoned with a
chat Britain in 1948 and fighting peacock, the symbol of
has been ruled by the the pro-democracy movement in
feedback military in various Myanmar.
guises since 1962. In
SITE GUIDES: 1990 the junta refused Police SWAT teams were on the
help to recognize elections scene within an hour of the
contents that gave Aung San Suu takeover, as were police dogs and
Kyi's party a their handlers. Sharpshooters
search landslide victory. The took up positions in nearby tall
military, until 1994, buildings.
FASTER ACCESS: refused dialogue with
europe Suu Kyi, its most A student leader from a Myanmar
japan formidable opponent refugee camp was brought to the
since it seized direct embassy as an intermediary.
power in 1988 by
WEB SERVICES: bloodily crushing a Thai Prime Minister Chuan
pro-democracy Leekpai, who arrived at the scene
uprising. The junta after nightfall, said Thai
suppresses almost all authorities would not use force.
political opposition.
Troops regularly A Myanmar government statement,
patrol the streets to received in Bangkok, said
stop demonstrations. Ambassador Hla Maung was working
Hundreds of members of with Thai authorities to secure
Suu Kyi's party have release of the hostages.
been detained. The
army has frequently Dissident Myanmar groups worked
been accused of to distance themselves from the
brutality and murder takeover.
in ethnic areas. Suu
Kyi herself lives in "We would like to say we were not
circumstances akin to involved in that matter and we
house arrest. She was don't know anything about it,"
awarded the Nobel dissident leader Naing Aung said
Peace Prize in 1991. by telephone.
Naing Aung, chairman of the exile All Burma Students'
Democratic Front, said he had never heard of the Vigorous
Student Burmese Warriors, and thought it may have been
formed specifically for the takeover.
The militants at the embassy claimed in their statement
to have no ties to any other group.
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