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Subject: Re: SPECIAL POSTING : Myanmar says student exiles welcome to return

es, may i advise, dont bother with mg at all, senseless and indifferent,
ds

Eric Snider wrote:
> 
> Hello Mg Myanmar:-
> I am pleased to see that you are a person who loves your country.
> I see that you have posted this article with words from Gen Khin Nyunt
> about welcoming back with open arms students who have fled Myanmar.
> Could you tell me what steps should be followed by a student who wished to
> take advantage of the general's offer?
> I am sure you would agree that someone who had fled the country might be a
> little nervous about going back after reading what the general had to say
> about getting rid of national traitors.
> So, perhaps you could give a few words of practical advice about how to
> take advantage of the general's offer without running the risk of paying
> the penalty that national traitors are about to suffer.
> With best wishes,
> celsus
> 
> ----------
> > From: Mg Myanmar <mg_myanmar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: MAYKHA-L <MAYKHA-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; BURMANET
> <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>; SCB <soc.culture.burma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> BURMANET2 <burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: SPECIAL POSTING : Myanmar says student exiles welcome to return
> > Date: December 7, 1999 5:40 AM
> >
> > Myanmar says student exiles welcome to return
> >
> > YANGON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Myanmar's intelligence chief said the military
> government is ``worried'' about students who fled the country to escape the
> bloody suppression of a pro-democracy uprising in 1988 and would welcome
> their return.
> >
> > The official Myanma News Agency quoted the powerful Lieutenant-General
> Khin Nyunt as saying the students fled because of the ``instigation of
> destructive elements.''
> >
> > ``The government still welcomes them with open arms,'' he said at the
> conclusion of a refresher course for teachers in Yangon on Sunday. ``The
> government is worried that they will continue to fall prey to the
> temptations of destructive elements.''
> >
> > Several thousand university age students fled to neighbouring Thailand
> after the military government killed thousands of people to crush a
> student-led pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
> >
> > Khin Nyunt said it ``is now necessary to get rid of the national
> traitors, who, by relying on external elements, are trying to make the
> future of the state fade away by spiritually spoiling the youths.''
> >
> > The military government uses the terms ``national traitors'' and
> ``destructive elements'' to refer to opponents, including the National
> League for Democracy (NLD), the main opposition party, and armed ethnic
> minority groups battling for greater autonomy.
> >
> >
> > Since 1988, Myanmar student dissidents have been a persistent thorn in
> the side of the military, joining forces with ethnic rebel groups fighting
> the Yangon government and waging a propaganda war from Thailand against
> authoritarian rule.
> >
> > While Thailand has tolerated their presence for the past 11 years, it
> called for the speeding up of their resettlement in third countries after a
> group of armed dissidents took over the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok in early
> October.
> >
> > Thai-Myanmar ties were badly strained when Thai authorities allowed the
> five attackers to go free to a safe border area when they released 89
> hostages held for 25 hours unharmed.
> >
> > More than 2,000 dissidents who fled Myanmar to Thailand after the 1988
> crackdown have already been resettled in the United States, Canada,
> Australia, England and Sweden. About another 2,000 still live in Thailand
> or in border areas.
> >
> > Myanmar has kept universities and colleges closed for much of the past 11
> years to prevent a resurgence of student activism.
> >
> > Last week the government said 75 percent of classes had already restarted
> and arrangements were underway to reopen those remaining when the new
> academic year restarted in April.
> > ********************************************
> >
> > Mg Myanmar
> > A Myanmar citizen who loves Myanmar
> >
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