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Myanmar threatens rift with  Thailand over student exiles             
October 7, 1999
 Web posted at: 7:50 a.m. HKT (2350 GMT)

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Myanmar warned on Wednesday   that relations with 
Thailand could be harmed if Bangkok does not  tighten security at its refugee
camps. The warning came after dissidents took 38 hostages at the Myanmar 
embassy in Bangkok. 

                  "It is time for Thailand to shoulder the responsibility, to 
stop and think that  this could very well lead to some adverse effects on 
bilateral relations
 between Thailand and Myanmar," said an editorial in the state-run New
 Light of Myanmar daily. The Thai government, which let the embassy captors 
go free on grounds that they were  "student activists struggling for 
democracy,"
 resolved Wednesday to tighten embassy  security and impose stricter controls 
on Myanmar exiles. 

                  Five rebels stormed the embassy on Friday
                  with AK-47s concealed in a guitar case and
                  took the hostages. They were released 26
                  hours later, when Thai authorities agreed to
                  give the rebels safe passage by helicopter back
                  to the border with Myanmar, also known as
                  Burma. 

                  At least two former student dissidents at the
                  Maneeloy holding center for asylum-seekers
                  from Myanmar, near the border with Myanmar
                  in the Thai province of Ratchaburi, are believed
                  by Thai authorities to have been among the five
                  at the embassy. 

                  The identity of the others was unclear. Thai
                  media have reported that they include at least
                  one dissident involved in the hijacking of an
                  airplane on a domestic flight in Myanmar in
                  1989 and who has served jail time in Thailand. 

                  The New Light editorial claimed that most of
                  the 24 camps inside the Thai border were
                  sheltering armed insurgents and anti-Yangon terrorists 
fighting "under                   themask of democracy." 
 
 A meeting of Thailand's anti-terrorism committee concluded that poor
  intelligence on the activities of dissidents from Myanmar and weak security
  at the Yangon mission in Bangkok were to blame for the hostage-taking. 

"There will be improvement in the system controlling the students. In every
  refugee camp around the country the rules will be stricter," Interior 
Minister Sanan Kachornprasart said after the meeting. 

                  An estimated 3,000 students from Myanmar have sought refuge 
in Thailand.They were at the forefront of the democracy movement in their 
homeland. A popular uprising for civilian government in Myanmar was crushed 
in 1988
at the cost of more than 3,000 lives.