There wouldn't be a Refugee problem

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Subject: There wouldn't be a Refugee problem IF the SLORC/SPDC military wasn't in Burma

Premier Chuan Leekpai,
  There wouldn't be a Refugee problem IF the SLORC/SPDC military wasn't
in Burma.  The Free Burma groups and the world are grateful for your
assistance to the refugees and exiles.  But supporting directly or
indirectly the unelected military dictatorship only make things worse.
   Talk to and Work with the exiles.  Don't fear the Burmese junta
anymore.  Stop playing their games. The U.N. and other groups have
offered help with this yet you refuse or do nothing.


Signed,
The Rangoon Post Co-Editor ---  TheTruth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Myanmar Students Warned after Locking up UN Staff 

BANGKOK, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Premier Chuan Leekpai warned Myanmar exiles
on Tuesday their sanctuary in Thailand could be in doubt if there was a
repeat of an incident the previous day in which dissidents locked up
five U.N. staff at a holding centre. 

Janvier de Riedmatten, of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in
Thailand, said the staff were briefly locked in an office at the
Maneeloy camp in Thailand's Ratchaburi province on Monday by students
protesting against being denied an 800 baht ($20) monthly living
allowance. 

He said they were denied the allowance as they had left the camp in
violation of conditions laid down by Thai authorities. 

A UNHCR statement said the matter required investigation but was not a
major event and needed to be "kept in perspective." 

However, Chuan, whose government just had to deal with Myanmar
dissidents taking 89 hostages at the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok last
month, warned against more trouble. 

Referring to the incident in the camp, he told reporters: 

"They rely on Thailand for refuge but they organised and created a
problem that could be viewed as threating our security, even though they
were not armed. 

"If they organise in such a way that undermines Thailand's interests,
the country might not be able to continue to accept them." 

Chuan said if such problems arose in future Thailand might ask other
countries to share the burden of Myanmar refugees. 

He said Thailand's National Security Council had told him third
countries like Australia, Canada and the United States were prepared to
accept up to 3,000 of the refugees, who fled military rule in their
homeland. 

The Myanmar embassy was taken over by a group of five students thought
to have come from the Maneeloy centre, although the Bangkok Post quoted
Ratchaburi provincial governor Kometr Daegthongdee as saying they were
not connected to the latest protest. 

Thailand's decision to allow the embassy attackers free passage to the
Myanmar border after they freed the hostages unharmed has strained ties
with Yangon and led the latter to close its frontier for trade.