Declaration condemning forcible ent

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Subject: Declaration condemning forcible entry into and looting of Myanmar Embassy

Declaration condemning forcible entry into and looting of Myanmar Embassy on 
pretext of democracy

                                           Dated 11th October 1999

1.  Union Kayin League strongly denounces the forcible entry into the looting 
of the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, by a group of terrorists at a 
time when the Tatmadaw government is not only building the Union of Myanmar 
to become a modern and developed nation but also exerting its efforts for 
winning national re-consolidation through the National Convention, as the 
acts of the group of destructive elements no matter how much they tried to 
sound good on the pretext of democracy were terrorists acts.

2.  It must be assumed that the Thai government, which failed to give 
adequate security to prevent the intrusion into the Embassy representing 
Myanmar in the broad daylight by the group of armed terrorists, is mainly 
responsible.

    Moreover, we of the Union Kayin League strongly and seriously denounce 
the statement ?They are not terrorists, they are students, who fight for 
democracy, we have given them safe passage to their own country. We don?t 
consider them to be terrorists. They are students? made by Deputy Prime 
Minister and Interior Minister of Thailand Mr. Sanan Kachornprasart in 
expressing his attitude, as it is an irresponsible statement by an official 
of the Thai government.

3.  In addition to strongly denouncing the internal/external organizations 
and media which had given encouragement and support to the forcible armed 
intrusion into and looting of the sovereign Myanmar Embassy by the group of 
armed terrorists even though it is a terrorists act, we shall have to assume 
that the Thai government, which has the duty to safeguard against 
transgression of the Embassy premises in accord with the Article 22 of the 
Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations, to which the world nations have 
agreed to adhere, should be held mainlyresponsible for being the host nation 
and for having transported the terrorists to safety in Thailand.

    We seriously demand the Thai government to take measures to arrest  the 
terrorists, who can be presumed to be still in Thailand, and to take action 
against them in accord with the international law at the earliest.


                                International terrorism shall certainly fall.


                                        (  U Mahn Tin Aung Than )
                                                Chairman
                                            Union Kayin League
                                            (Phone : 222410)