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Salween Dam Site World Bank, IMF up



Subject: Salween Dam Site World Bank, IMF update

Do YOU have the latest WB IMF update on this? please post it. ds
> 
> 4 October 1999 - RE-BROADCAST
> 
> No: 10 - 6
> 
> Junta Fortifying the Salween Dam Site
> According to sources close to the Shan States Army of Yawdserk, the
> Burma
> Army has been, for the past two months, building up their positions
> along
> the Salween River near the site which had undergone a five-month long
> feasibility study until the end of March.
> 
> Saengjuen Sarawin, S.H.A.N.'s principal reporter, who recently returned
> from his visit to the SSA Base, reports: "Units from 4 Infantry
> Battalions,
> 330, 332, 518 and 520, numbering 4-500, came from Mongpan (on the
> western
> bank) to keep vigilance on both sides of the river from Ta-sangé to
> Tasang".
> 
> Tasang is the ferry crossing between Mongpan Township on the western
> bank
> and Mongton Township on the eastern. A few kilometers north is the
> projected dam site where feasibility studies took place in late October
> last year by a Thai company.
> 
> In addition, there are 8 motorboats that patrols along the river, said
> the
> sources. "The aim looks to be two-fold", said one. "First, to prevent
> the
> Shan fighters from crossing back and forth along that stretch, and,
> second,
> to insure security for the dam site".
> 
> ///END\\\
> For further information, please contact S.H.A.N. at:
> Shan Herald Agency for News.
> P.O. Box. 15, Nonghoi P.O., 50007, Chiangmai, Thailand
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