BurmaNet News: February 9, 2001

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         February 9, 2001   Issue # 1731
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INSIDE BURMA _______
*Freedom News: Battle of Loi Kaw Kham Still Raging
*Institute of Arakan Studies: Racial tension in Arakan--Fresh influx of 
refugees feared

REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL _______
*Bangkok Post: Fears rise as Burma set to attack rebels
*Kyodo: EU pledges to support positive developments in Myanmar
*Nation: Finding a new angle
*Deutsche Presse-Agentur: E.U. calls for "real progress" in Myanmar's 
opposition-government talks

ECONOMY/BUSINESS _______
*Canada NewsWire/Ivanhoe: Ivanhoe Mines reports 2000 production results; 
Advances discussions on project-financing options for Letpadaung Copper 
Project

OTHER______
*Washington Post: Discovering Self on Burma's Chaotic Borders 
		


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Freedom News: Battle of Loi Kaw Kham Still Raging

9 February 2001


The battle of Loi Kaw Kham, Mong Karn tract, Tachilek township, near 
Thai border opposite Chiangrai province, which has started from the 5th 
February 2001 with 3 skirmishes where at least one of the SPDC troops 
from 244th Infantry Battalion was killed in action and more than 10 
wounded, is said to be still raging. 

And on the 6th February, the SPDC troops from 244th IB and 526th LIB 
were ambushed where they lost 5 deads. One SPDC major and a radio 
operator were among the casualties. 
On the early dawn of 7th February, at 04:00 hrs., the SPDC troops were 
reinforced with freshly arrived strength of 4 battalions near the 
village of Wan Pang Noon, along the Thai border. 
In the evening of 8th February, at 16:00 hrs., a battle broke out and 
last to 09:00 hrs. in the morning of 9th February. In this battle SSA 
troops captured: 

a. 1 - 60mm motar
b. 1 - RPG7 launcher
c. 3 - G3 assault rifles
d. 1 - G4 assault rifle.

SSA troops are said to be intact and no casualty was reported. 

And after the noon of 9th February, the SPDC troops renew their assault. 
At the time of this reporting, (i.e. 13:45 hrs.), the battle of Loi Kaw 
Kham is still in progress. 






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Institute of Arakan Studies: Racial tension in Arakan--Fresh influx of 
refugees feared

Date: 9th Feb. Teknaf (Bangladesh)- Racial tension in Arakan State 
capital Sittwe (Akyab) has continued to prevail till today following 
last Sunday's killing of Muslim Rohingya residents of the town. 

According to information reaching here over phone from Yangon, the riot 
further spread to other townships of Arakan State and 12 Muslim houses 
in the town of Rathedaung, 40 mile in the north east of Akyab, have been 
Burned down on 8th Feb night by Rakhine mobs believed to be under the 
instigation of communalist forces linked with the regime. 

(According to a press release of Arakan Independeance seeker under the 
banner of Arakan Independence Alliance (A.I.A) of which combined Rakhine 
National Groups of National United Party of Arakan (N.U.P.A) and 
combined Rohingya groups Arakan Rohingya National Organisation(A.R.N.O). 
It stated that On 4-5 6 February 2001, in Akyab district of Arakan (the 
western part of Burma), an estimate of 150 to 180 Rohingya Muslim 
killed, more than 500 seriously injured, 200 missing including women, 
children and thousands left homeless in a planned way secret killings 
and setting fire the Rohingya Muslims area of MolviPara, Nazir para, 
Amla para , Rohingya para, Sakki Bazaar para and Kawshy Para near the 
township of Akyab by a group of Burmese Army in the guise of Buddhist 
Monks. They firstly come to Moley Para, the Muslim majority area and 
started up in fighting with the local Rohingya residents. Soon after 
starting provoked quarrel they started to set fire the area at lane 
No.904 and 763 of Nazir pare onwards in a planned way. Before the 
incident taken place, all telecommunication facilities from that Muslims 
area have been cut off. As many as 400 houses including 4 boarding were 
raze down, the report added.)  

Following the incident, the Secretary -III Gen. Win Myint has been 
visiting the area from Yangon on 8 February and ordered the troops to 
remain on full alert. He also advised the people of other townships in 
Akyab to return to their Respective townships by fast available 
transport. Hundreds of injured Muslims have still been lying in the 
hospital wards and floor mostly unattended due to sudden overcrowded 
position and lack of sufficient facilities in the only State hospital. 
The injured mostly have cut marks and other brutal wounds have been in 
critical condition, as they could not afford life saving medicine and 
surgery. 

It is further reported that the hoodlums picked up some 70-80 children 
running helter-skelter and there is no trace of these children and most 
people believe that they might have been killed after taking away to 
remoteplace. Many more are reported missing since the incident. The 
injured children lying in the pool of blood were seen thrown into the 
blazing fire by the mob and no exact figure of casualties could be 
collected due to news blackout as the army has of late cordoned off the 
area. More than 380 houses have been razed to the ground during Sunday's 
arson and the occupants have been passing their days in open sky in the 
severe cold without anything left with them. The Burmese junta is 
reported to have asked the Muslims to maintain restraint while the 
Rakhines have been told to show their muscle against the Muslims. In 
absence of co-operation in supply of relief goods to the victims, the 
Muslims of Rangoon and other cities have been trying to collect fund and 
relief materials including life saving drugs for the Muslims of Akyab. 

It is feared that there might be new influx of Rohingya Muslims from 
Arakan State to neighboring Bangladesh if the tension further escalates. 
Another information coming in through Burma Bangladesh border has it 
that the Burmese military junta has become serious following the unity 
of the two ethnic communities Rakines and Rohingyas at organization 
level and has since been serious to foil it by taking various steps. 
Hence, the amassing of 20,000 troops along Burma Bangladesh border, 
police crackdown on Burmese opposition elements in Bangladesh at the 
time when border tension between the two countries has been at its 
height and the latest racial riot in Akyab are nothing but a series of 
systematic conspiratorial plan of the Burmese regime, observed by many 
watchers. 



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Bangkok Post: Fears rise as Burma set to attack rebels

Kyodo: EU pledges to support positive developments in Myanmar





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Bangkok Post: Fears rise as Burma set to attack rebels


Officials brace for spillover of fighting


Supamart Kasem


Border officials met yesterday to discuss military readiness to deal 
with any spillover of fighting from Burma's dry-season offensive against 
rebels.

The meeting was attended by National Security Council secretary-general 
Kachadpai Burusapatana, governor Nirat Vatchanaphume and Third Army 
deputy commander Maj-Gen Chamlong Phothong.

Mr Kachadpai said Rangoon looked set to renew its crackdown on rebel 
groups and there was concern that fighting in Burma would spill over 
into Thai border areas.

Also raised for discussion was the Naresuan task force's operation plan 
to combat drugs from Burma.

Mr Kachadpai said the council would push for the repatriation of all 
106,000 refugees housed in border camps within the next three years.

Thailand would seek assistance from the UN High Commissioner for 
Refugees and international communities in pressuring Burma to take them 
back.

"Burma must allow them to return home and the UNHCR must use its 
diplomatic channels in handling this problem which has become a big 
burden for us," he said.

Thailand also needed Burma's sincere co-operation to help solve border 
disputes and drug trafficking problems, he added.

Asked about the long-standing conflict between ethnic minority rebels 
and the Burmese government, the security chief said Thailand would not 
intervene in Burma's internal affairs unless asked to do so.

Peace and reconciliation in Burma would certainly help minimise problems 
that might occur between Thailand and its neighbour, he said.

Asked about the drafting of the next national security strategic plan 
for 2002-2006, Mr Kachadpai said a series of brainstorming sessions were 
under way on the subject.



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Kyodo: EU pledges to support positive developments in Myanmar


BRUSSELS Feb. 9 Kyodo - The European Union (EU) announced Thursday that 
it is ready to further support positive developments in Myanmar, 
welcoming recent direct dialogue between Myanmar's pro-democracy leader 
Aung San Suu Kyi and the ruling junta. 
''The Union considers these developments to be the most interesting 
since 1990,'' Sweden said in a statement. The country currently holds 
the rotating EU presidency. 

After some 30 years, Myanmar held a general election in May 1990. The 
pro-democracy National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide 
victory but was barred from taking power by the junta. 

The statement also said the EU welcomes the recent release from 
detention of more than 80 opposition NLD activists, hoping the move will 
bring the early release of Suu Kyi, who has been restricted to her home 
since last fall. 

The EU sent a mission to Yangon on Jan 28-31. Members of the delegation 
met with all the concerned parties including Suu Kyi and Lt. Gen. Khin 
Nyunt, No. 3 in the junta and the head of military intelligence. 

The mission, the second of its kind, included representatives from 
Sweden, Belgium, the European Commission and the European Council. The 
last visit by an EU fact-finding mission was in July 2000. 

In January, a U.N. spokesman in New York said the Myanmar military 
government opened a direct dialogue with Suu Kyi. The United Nations 
made the announcement after Razali Ismail, the U.N. special envoy for 
Myanmar, concluded his third visit to the country since July last year. 


 

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Nation: Finding a new angle

February 8, 2001, Thursday 


SUBHATRA BHUMIPRABHAS 

DESPITE having spent almost all his early life in Chiang Rai province, 
Sitthipong Kalayanee never knew of the brutal ethnic wars and injustice 
that lay just across the border in Burma. 

It would take studying in Bangkok to show him the problems in his own 
backyard that would ultimately inspire him to focus his life plan and 
lend a helpful hand to his isolated and less fortunate neighbors in 
need. "I felt that these people lacked the opportunity to contact the 
outside world," he explained. 

Sitthipong, 39, is the managing director of Images Asia, an alternative 
media organization which creates television documentaries and various 
multi-media productions to tell of the conflicts between the central 
military government in Rangoon and ethnic minority groups such as the 
Karen, Kachin, Kareni and Shan in the vast northern and eastern 
stretches of the country. He helped found Images Asia in 1993, when he 
made his first forays with a camera and video production crew into the 
jungles along the Thai-Burmese border, interviewing the leaders of 
ethnic revolutionary groups and documenting the desperate humanitarian 
conditions aggravated by decades of slow-burning wars and lack of 
economic opportunity. 

Since then he has traveled further into the jungle areas of northern 
Burma controlled by the ethnic groups, with video camera and backpack on 
his shoulder. There he trained some of the young members of rebel groups 
how to draw the world's attention to their plight, explaining to child 
soldiers that cameras can be useful weapons in their fight. 

"Though they have been holding them in their hands for several decades, 
guns haven't stopped the wars, so I suggested they try this non- violent 
approach," he said. 

With regret, Sitthipong said that while growing up he had no idea about 
the fighting between the Burmese government and the ethnic minorities' 
armed forces until his student days in Bangkok. 

Sitthipong, aka, Sam, attended high school in Bangkok in the late 1970s, 
staying in a dormitory in the same building that held an office of the 
Student Christian Movement (SCM). Sam took an interest in the SCM's 
efforts to track the situation in northern Burma, and kept up his 
contacts with the agency through his continued education in Bangkok. 
While majoring in political science at Ramkhamhaeng University, in 1985 
Sam was elected to serve as SCM secretary general, a position in which 
he liased between the group and the university's foreign students, from 
which he began to learn of the plight of ethnic minorities in Burma. 

"I became interested in the way of life of minorities from students who 
were concerned with the problems faced by ethnic minorities and 
aboriginal peoples in many countries around the world," he revealed. 

He sadly recalled one day in 1986, when a Kachin student from Rangoon 
University he met at a conference on Burma told him details about the 
wars in his homeland. 

"He looked surprised that I knew nothing about the civil war in Burma. 
He said that Kachin had been fighting with the Burmese Government for 
more than twenty years. I also asked myself that why I never heard about 
the war, despite that it was taking place next door," Sam recalled. 

As Karen and Shan friends who were members of the Student Christian 
Fellowship at Rangoon University continued sending updates on the 
conflict between the Burmese government and the ethnic groups, Sam 
became more interested in and familiar with the issues. After completing 
his term as SCM secretary general, Sam decided to work as coordinator of 
Santi Prachatham's Burma Project, initiated by well-known social critic 
Sulak Siwaraksa. 

"My work was to conduct the training seminars 'Political Definitions' 
and 'Using the Non-violent Approach' for members of ethnic minority 
groups in Burma," he revealed. 

During this period, Sam and two colleagues visited many states of the 
ethnic groups. The young trainer suggested that the groups turn to 
negotiation as a way of reaching their goals, and he also expanded his 
network of contacts with people in states of Karen, Kachin, Kareni and 
Shan. 

At the first step of his training, Sam asked the young rebels to define 
political problems in Burma, and discussed with them what kind of 
government would be best for Burma, and how they might best achieve 
autonomy for the ethnic states, so that they could retain their unique 
cultures, languages and lifestyles. 

Through the project, Sam proposed the increased the use mediation and 
non-violence to end the conflicts. "The military approach only can't end 
the conflict," he said. 

For three years with the Burma Project, Sam came to know almost all the 
major military groups of the ethnic minorities in Burma, and received 
regular updates from friends and contacts at Rangoon University. 

When the Burmese junta launched a major offensive against democracy 
activists in 1988, in which hundreds if not thousands of protesters were 
killed by government troops, his Burmese friends from Rangoon fled to 
Thailand to seek support from Thai students. 

"I was able to help organize a meeting between them and the Student 
Federation of Thailand," he revealed. 

Sam explained that the more he found out about the situation in Burma 
and the fate of both Burmese friends and the ethnic groups, the more he 
wanted to share this important story with the outside world, so others 
would not remain as ignorant as he had once been. Sam started writing 
articles about the struggle of the ethnic minorities in Burma for Thai 
political magazines. In 1990, Sam attended a special course in peace 
studies in Oslo, Norway. 

Next, Sam intended to write his own book on the stories and struggles of 
ethnic minorities in Burma, and resigned from the Burma Project. But Sam 
never finished writing the book because he found yet another way to 
convey his message. 

"I thought since I also had some experience and training and taking 
photos, why not train them minority group members to take their own 
photos," said Sam. 

Focused on wanting to show the minority groups how to document their 
stories and share them with the world, Sam conducted a class of his own 
design in 1993 in Manerplaw, then headquarters of the Karen National 
Union, which was attended by 26 members of the National Democratic 
Front. Two years later the town was taken by the Burmese government in 
their assault against such groups. 

"When I asked them what problem that they wanted the world to know 
about, they mentioned their lack of opportunity to negotiate with the 
Burmese government," the trainer recalled. 

The non-violent trainer told those young, mid-level leaders that if they 
found a way to tell the world what happened to them through pictures and 
video documentary, they would have a greater chance for receiving 
sympathy and support in their struggle. He went on to train his 
students, already skilled in firearms and warfare, a different style of 
shooting that could serve their cause. 

"And at the same time, I made many documentaries on their situation 
too," he said. 

Sam kept in contact with the leaders and went on to conduct a few more 
programs with them on using media intervention as a form of forcing 
negotiation, and a weapon in the war of information to keep the outside 
world informed on what is going in Burma. 

Since then, many of those peoples have come under further military 
attack by Burmese troops, and he is unaware of the fate of many of his 
former colleagues. He said that many of them had attempted to use the 
negotiation process and use of media has a tool, but only in many cases 
after their military forces had been severely weakened. By that time in 
the late 1990s the Burmese were consolidating their military gains and 
attempts at filming or reporting what was going on became much harder to 
accomplish. 

"It's a pity that they the leaders of the ethnic groups decided to use 
negotiating processes only after their armed forces were weakened." 

"However, some of students in the project chose to use video as evidence 
to tell the world about their fate," Sam said with pride, adding that 
many press agencies also continue to use video footage collected by his 
former students. 

Moreover, some international organizations also used the video 
production produced by members of the ethnic groups and Images Asia as 
evidence in campaigns to boycott Burma for the use of child labor of 
ethnic minorities in areas controlled by the Rangoon junta. 

"At least, this is proof that a non-violent approach using media 
intervention can be used to draw the world's attention to their plight. 
"It is more effective than using violence," Sam said. 




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Deutsche Presse-Agentur: E.U. calls for "real progress" in Myanmar's 
opposition-government talks


February 8, 2001


European Union governments Thursday welcomed recent contacts between 
Myanmar's ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and 
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the "most interesting 
developments" in more than a decade. 

"They need to be encouraged," said an E.U. statement which followed a 
visit to Myanmar by an E.U. team late last month. 

But the 15 nation bloc warned that the political situation in Myanmar 
"remains worrying". 

E.U. governments called for "concrete measures leading to national 
reconciliation, democracy and the respect of human rights" and voiced 
hopes that recent confidential contacts between the military junta and 
the opposition would lead to "real progress in all these areas." 

The bloc also welcomed the recent release from detention of a number of 
opposition activists and voiced "strong support" for the efforts of the 
United Nations' Special Envoy Razali Ismail to get a dialogue going 
between the government and opposition. dpa si ba 





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Canada NewsWire/Ivanhoe: Ivanhoe Mines reports 2000 production results; 
Advances discussions on project-financing options for Letpadaung Copper 
Project 



February 8, 2001, Thursday 

 
SINGAPORE, Feb. 8 

Robert Friedland, Chairman, and Daniel Kunz,  
President of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., announced today that Ivanhoe Mines and 
its  recently acquired ABM Mining subsidiary had combined revenue in 
2000 of  approximately US$84.8 million. The companies recorded combined 
net sales of  approximately 13,350 tonnes (29.1 million pounds) of 
copper from Ivanhoe's  
Monywa joint venture in Myanmar, and approximately 2.19 million tonnes 
of iron  ore pellets and 19,400 tonnes of iron ore concentrate from 
ABM's Savage River  
mine and Port Latta pellet plant in Tasmania, Australia. Ivanhoe 
completed its  acquisition of 100% of ABM Mining on December 31, 2000.  

    ABM's sales revenue in 2000 was US$61.5 million, up 8.66% over 1999 
sales  revenue of US$56.6 million. ABM's production of iron ore products 
in 2000   increased by approximately 11% over its 1999 output of 1.9 
million tonnes of  iron ore pellets and 80,000 tonnes of concentrate. 
ABM also benefited from a  
price increase of 6% for its pellets, which took effect in the second 
quarter  of 2000.  

    Ivanhoe plans to raise ABM's pellet output by a further 30%, to a 
rate of  2.79 million tonnes a year plus 190,000 tonnes of concentrate 
and chips, over  
the next several years. Ivanhoe recently approved an investment of  
approximately A$20 million (US$11.2 million) for a new crusher, a semi-  
autogenous mill and another ball mill at the Savage River Mine. The new  
facilities will boost the design capacity of the mine's concentrator 
from its  current rate of approximately 2.2 million tonnes a year to 2.9 
million tonnes  a year. The Port Latta pellet plant presently has 
surplus capacity, with a  design rate of approximately 3.2 million 
tonnes a year.  

    Ivanhoe Mines' share of copper sales in 2000 from the S&K Mine at 
Monywa,  Myanmar, was US$23.3 million, an increase of 13% over the 
company's US$20.6  
million share of S&K's 1999 copper sales. Cathode production in 2000 was 
 26,711 tonnes (58.9 million pounds), almost the same level as the 
mine's 1999  
output, about 7% higher than the mine's design capacity of 25,000 tonnes 
a  year. The mine, 50%-owned by Ivanhoe, achieved a minegate cash 
production cost  
of approximately 31 cents (US) per pound of copper in 2000, ranking the 
mine  among the world's lowest-cost primary copper producers. Total 
production  
costs, including interest expense, depreciation, marketing and royalty  
payments, were approximately 67 cents (US) per pound. 

The mine received an  average LME settlement price of 82 cents (US) per 
pound of cathode copper sold  in 2000, an increase of 13 cents a pound 
over the average settlement price  received in 1999. The project's 
cashflow is being used to pay down the  original US$90 million project 
loan. Including the reserve payment held in  escrow, the loan balance 
will be reduced to US$60 million when the next semi-  annual payment is 
made on February 28th.  

    An organic scrub and neutralization thickener were commissioned at 
S&K  late in the fourth quarter. The new facilities were installed to 
enhance the  
plant's efficiency and production rate. Results to date have been 
encouraging  and the joint venture expects the annual production rate to 
increase to  
approximately 30,000 tonnes (66.1 million pounds) in 2001.  

    Mr. Kunz also announced that several significant Japanese financial  
organizations have expressed interest in providing project development  
financing and cathode marketing for the Letpadaung copper deposit, the 
second  phase of the Monywa project. Talks with the organizations were 
held in  
conjunction with an Ivanhoe Capital investment symposium in Tokyo in 
December.  The symposium was attended by senior executives of Japan's 
leading mining,  investment and banking consortiums, and senior 
government representatives,  including the Minister of Ministry of 
Industry, Trade and Investment (MITI).  

Discussions were also held with Korean and Chinese financial 
organizations  that have expressed interest for project development 
financing and cathode  
marketing services for the Letpadaung project.  

    The planned development of the Letpadaung deposit, located six 
kilometres  south of the S&K Mine, provides for a designed production 
rate of 125,000  tonnes (275 million pounds) of cathode a year, and a 
flow sheet, metallurgy  and process design very similar to the S&K 
Mine's. The estimated capital cost  to develop the Letpadaung deposit is 
US$390 million. Subject to financing and  government approval, 
production from Letpadaung is expected to commence in  
2003.  

    Ivanhoe is also exploring for gold, silver and copper in South 
Korea,  Myanmar and Mongolia, and holds a 70% interest in the large 
Bakyrchik gold  
deposit in Kazakhstan. Ivanhoe is a public company traded on the Toronto 
and  Australian stock exchanges under the symbol IVN. 








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Washington Post: Discovering Self on Burma's Chaotic Borders 
  
 
 
By Sara Wildberger
Special to The Washington Post
Thursday, February 8, 2001; Page PG25



For photographer Chan Chao, coming to America was easy. Getting back to 
see his birthplace in Burma was hard.


A photo exhibit at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, "Burma: 
Something Went Wrong," documents his struggle and the struggle of 
refugees on his country's borders with Thailand and India.


Chao, 34, immigrated to the United States with his family at age 12 and 
attended school in Prince George's and Montgomery counties, eventually 
becoming a student at the University of Maryland. One of his professors, 
John Gosage, introduced him to fine art photography.


Portraits and studio work were Chao's specialty. In an exhibition space 
behind the Burma portraits is an installation of some of his earlier 
work, edgy black-and-white nudes, images a world apart from those of the 
refugee camps.


Although the damaged bodies and faces in the exhibit's small color 
portraits attest to the fact that the camps can be hazardous, Chao said 
he never felt endangered. He went to meet relatives, not take pictures, 
he said.


Ultimately, though, his motive was introspective: self-discovery. "I 
only felt I wanted to go back when I was turning about 30," he said. "I 
started to reexamine myself and ask, 'Who am I? What's my background?' "


So, in 1996, he bought a ticket, applied for a visa and was given a 
resounding "No" from the embassy of Burma, also known as Myanmar. The 
reason, he said, is that his father supports the democracy movement 
there. Chao used his ticket to visit friends in Asia instead, figuring 
that he'd try Burma again when he was closer.


He did, this time from Jakarta, and still couldn't obtain a visa. "I was 
crushed," he said. A friend in Thailand offered to help, and at least 
Thailand was closer to Burma. "That's when I decided to go to the 
border," he said. "Since I was this close, I might as well try to get 
some experience of going back to Burma."


Civil unrest has plagued Burma since its independence from Britain in 
the 1940s, and the border is riddled with refugee camps. As Chao's 
photos attest, the camps are multiethnic and multigenerational. People 
in them wear sarongs, fatigues, polo shirts; they hold guitars, guns, 
children. It's an existence marked by grindingly prosaic concerns and a 
twilight uncertainty.


Chao revisited the Thai-Burma border in 1997 and went to the India-Burma 
border in 1998. The Indian border was more remote, harder to reach and 
in the middle of its own ethnic battles. Chao felt he had to go there, 
he said, because it was the closest point,geographically, to the part of 
Burma his family came from.


With Gosage's help, Chao's photos last year became a book -- "Burma: 
Something Went Wrong," Nazraeli Press, $25. The exhibit has shown in 
Rochester, N.Y., and Chao hopes that it will travel elsewhere. "I see it 
as a kind of voice for the causes in Burma," he said.


The photographer credits the Burmese government with launching the 
project:


"Had they given me a visa, I don't think I would have gotten involved so 
politically. I would have been more of a tourist."


"Burma: Something Went Wrong" is on view through March 3 at the 
University of Maryland Art Gallery in the Art-Sociology Building on the 
campus at University Boulevard and Adelphi Road. A panel discussion on 
the art and politics of the exhibit is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at 
the gallery. Call 301-405-2763. 






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