AFP : Myanmar gunmen release Thai m (r)

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Subject: Re: AFP : Myanmar gunmen release Thai minister

In my view, the gun men apparently did not intend to harm anyone. What they
want seems to be international attention to their struggle for democracy in
Burma. However, frustration and losing patient with SLORC/SPDC may cause
more bloodshed in Burma or overseas. If it happens SLORC/SPDC is the only
party responsible for their failure to honor the election result in 1990 and
enter the dialogue with oppositions.

Kenneth Oo

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Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 6:49 PM
Subject: AFP : Myanmar gunmen release Thai minister


>  Myanmar gunmen release Thai minister after helicopter flight to border
>
>    BANGKOK, Oct 2 (AFP) - Myanmar gunmen have released a Thai minister who
>offered himself in exchange for nearly 40 hostages held captive for over 24
>hours at the Myanmar embassy here, Thailand's Interior Minister said
Saturday.
>    Deputy Foreign Minister Sukhumbhand Paribatra and another Thai official
>are now returning to Bangkok aboard a helicopter, which the five gunmen
>used to
>fly to the Thai-Myanmar border, said Interior Minister Sanan Kachonprasart.
>    Sanan said the gunmen fled after landing in the Thai border province of
>Ratchaburi.
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