QUID PRO QUO BY SPDC OF BURMA

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QUID PRO QUO BY SPDC OF BURMA
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SPDC, QUID PRO QUO all the time: In Politics, Business Dealings, etc. Too 
numerous to mention all of them in details here.

But, allow me to make references to a few of the most recent SPDC's QUID PRO 
QUO moves.

1. Since the months of July-September last year, SPDC has been holding
hundreds of Representatives of Parliaments from the NLD party as captives at 
government guest-house in Rangoon. They refused to admit that the NLD's 
Representatives of Parliament were under arrest and insisted that they were 
just being invited for discussion. However, when pressured by the 
international communities especially the UN "they promised to release them 
if NLD dissolved the CRPP which was formed to represent the People's 
Parliament". A QUID PRO QUO.

2. Now, Burma's SPDC ambassador in Bangkok has said "the border closure will 
not be lifted until the five hostage-takers are arrested and punished". 
Another QUID PRO QUO.

So, it clearly shows what SPDC/SLORC military regime in Burma is made of.

They are nothing but a bunch of military thugs who would not hesitate
to behave maliciously and use whatever strong-arm tactics they can think of 
to any one whom they found standing in their way.

In my view, if not checked and challenged properly by the international 
communities especially by the UN and the ASEAN, SPDC will get bolder in 
their acts and will soon find them transcending national boundary.

SLORC/SPDC is an illegitimate government which came to power by a "miltary 
coup" after killing thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in 1988. Ne Win 
came to power after toppling an only democrtically elected govenment by a 
bloodless "military coup" in 1962. It was not the first time and it won't be 
the last if nothing is done about it by the UN.

So, please allow me to appeal to the UN and the world communities at large 
not to deal QUID PRO QUO with SPDC under no circumstances. Believe me. They 
are so good at it. And more importantly, don't let them fool you.

With Mettta.

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>THE NATION - October 16, 1999
>
>Headlines
>
>Clashes on Thai-Burmese border
>
>MAE HONG SON -- Thai border troops clashed with unidentified armed 
>intruders
>from Burma in two incidents on Thursday, forcing them to retreat, but their
>identity is still uncertain, Thai military officials said yesterday.
>
>It was the first clash following soured relations between Rangoon and
>Bangkok because of the Oct 1-2 occupation of the Burmese Embassy that
>prompted the Burmese government to seal its border with Thailand.
>
>Thai Defence Ministry spokesman Lt-Gen Sanan Kajornklam said that one
>shooting incident had taken place around 5.30 pm on Thursday when 15 armed
>men crossed into Thai territory at Ban Huay Pueng in Mae Hong Son province.
>
>''Our patrol troops found the intruders inside our territory about one
>kilometre from the border. They fired warning shots. Both sides eventually
>exchanged gunfire for 10 minutes, which led to the withdrawal [of the
>intruders],'' Sanan said.
>
>He said there had been no casualties on the Thai side.
>
>Sanan said he suspected the attackers were ethnic guerillas who had been
>used by the Burmese government to raid refugee camps in Thailand.
>
>An officer in the Thai army task force in Mae Hong Son, 650 km north of
>Bangkok, said on condition of anonymity that the intruders had been about
>100 Burmese soldiers and that tensions remained high.
>
>Third Army Corps Commander Lt-Gen Udomchai Ongkasing surveyed the area
>yesterday after the incident.
>
>Burmese soldiers stationed over the border from Ban Huay Phung are
>reportedly conducting troop rotation along the border, particularly in the
>area over from the refugee camp of Ban Pang Saktuer on the Thai side.
>
>The Thai side of the long border is dotted with camps housing some 100,000
>refugees who have fled the Burmese army's suppression of rebel groups over
>the past half-century. Most refugees support the rebels.
>
>A military source in Mae Hong Son said yesterday that another clash had
>taken place at about 2 pm on Thursday when 30 Burmese soldiers invaded Thai
>territory, apparently to steal food from the Thai village of Ban Maisape.
>
>The village, about 1.5 km from the frontier, is about 4 km north of a camp
>for Burmese refugees, the source said.
>
>The Burmese troops opened fire on a group of 20 uniformed Thai soldiers who
>had moved into the area after a villager said troops had crossed into
>Thailand, the source said.
>
>The Thais returned fire with mortars and small arms, and both then 
>exchanged
>small-arms fire for about 10 minutes before the Burmese troops withdrew to
>their base. There is so far no report of casualties, according to the
>source.
>
>The Defence Ministry spokesman, however, said he was not aware of the Ban
>Maisape incident.
>
>''The report to Bangkok only mentioned the incident at Ban Huay Pueng,'' he
>said.
>
>A Thai army battalion reinforced the area yesterday, a military officer 
>said
>on condition of anonymity.
>
>A Burmese junta spokesman denied both incidents in a statement.
>
>''No such incidents occurred anywhere on the Thai-[Burmese] border. [It is]
>probably a fabrication designed to coincide with Mr de Soto's visit to
>[Burma],'' he said.
>
>United Nations special envoy Alvaro de Soto arrived in Burma on Thursday on
>a five-day mission expected to focus on political reforms.
>
>Ethnic-minority leaders and Thai intelligence officials on the border
>earlier reported a build-up of Burmese troops opposite Mae Hong Son and
>speculated they might be preparing to attack refugee camps.
>
>They said the move could be designed as retaliation for the 25-hour seizure
>earlier this month of Rangoon's Bangkok embassy by pro-democracy gunmen.
>
>Rangoon closed the border after Thailand bowed to the five gunmen's demands
>for a helicopter to transport them to the border. The gunmen disappeared
>after being flown to one of the camps on Oct 2, ending their occupation of
>the Burmese Embassy, where they had taken 38 people hostage to demand
>democratic rule in their homeland.
>
>In Rangoon some 15,000 people took part in a government-organised
>demonstration against terrorism and chanted slogans supporting the military
>regime.
>
>Trade and fishing between the two countries has come to a near-total
>standstill.
>
>Burma's ambassador has said the border closure will not be lifted until the
>five hostage-takers are arrested and punished.
>
>Burma said the Thai approach to the hostage-taking set a bad precedent that
>would encourage similar actions but was also clearly irked by statements
>from senior Thai officials who called the hostage-takers student fighters
>for democracy rather than terrorists.
>
>Pisanu Rienmahasarn, the Commerce Ministry's deputy director-general for
>foreign trade, said border trade between the two countries had virtually
>come to a standstill, estimating a loss of between Bt26 million and Bt30
>million a day while the fishery industry was estimated to be losing about
>Bt40 million a day.
>
>Meanwhile Pol Lt-Gen Yothin Mathayomnant, commander of the Police Special
>Branch, insisted the five armed Burmese were believed to be in hiding under
>the protection of the God Army, a small splinter group of the Karen 
>National
>Union of Gen Bo Mya.
>
>The group, made up of about 100 armed personnel, is based over the border
>from Ratchaburi province.
>
>The Nation, Agencies
>
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