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BurmaNet News: April 14, 2001



______________ THE BURMANET NEWS ______________
        An on-line newspaper covering Burma 
         April 14, 2001   Issue # 1779
______________ www.burmanet.org _______________

NOTED IN PASSING: ?The formation of the task force with American 
involvement is likely to further strain the uneasy Thai-Myanmar ties.?  

The Associated Press on US military involvement in combating Burma drug 
trafficking.  See AP: Report--U.S. troops to join Thai fight against 
Myanmar drugs 

INSIDE BURMA _______
*AP: Wife of former Communist leader dies
*Mizzima: Burma's human rights committee slow-going

REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL _______
*Xinhua: PLA Chief of General Staff Leaves on Three-Nation Tour
*AP: Report--U.S. troops to join Thai fight against Myanmar drugs 
*The Nation: US Special Forces join drugs war
*Bangok Post: Burma's support for scheme sought
*Japan Times: EU demands Myanmar grant rights to opposition

ECONOMY/BUSINESS _______
*Shan Herald Agency for News: Thai-Burma situation--Border still closed 

OPINION/EDITORIALS_______
*The Irrawaddy: Chavalit Looking Forward to Returning to the Past

OTHER______
*Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule?new book by former BurmaNet 
editor
*Talk by Burma Charge' d'Affaires Priscilla A. Clapp on April 18, 2001



__________________ INSIDE BURMA ____________________




AP: Wife of former Communist leader dies 

April 14, 2001

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) _ Khin Gyi, a relative of pro-democracy leader Aung 
San Suu Kyi and the wife of a one-time Communist guerrilla chief, has 
died at the age of 93, family sources said Saturday. 

 Khin Gyi, the elder sister of Suu Kyi's deceased mother, passed away 
Thursday at Suu Kyi's lakeside residence. The cause of death was not 
given. 

 Than Thun, Khin Gyi's husband, went underground shortly after Myanmar, 
also known as Burma, gained independence from Great Britain in 1948. 

 Heading the Burma Communist Party, he fought the central government 
until he was killed by a subordinate in 1968. 

 About 100 relatives, friends and members of Suu Kyi's National League 
for Democracy attended the funeral Saturday at a cemetery in the 
northern suburbs. 

 Suu Kyi, who has been under virtual house arrest since last September, 
was not seen at the funeral, according to several persons who attended. 

 But close family sources said she was not restricted from attending the 
rites. Suu Kyi has been allowed to receive foreign diplomats and NLD 
members at her home and has reportedly left her compound for several 
secret meetings with the ruling junta. 

 The Peace Prize laureate sharply opposes a group of generals who seized 
power after brutally crushing a pro-democracy uprising in 1988. 




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Mizzima: Burma's human rights committee slow-going 

New Delhi, April 12, 2001 
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com) 

The low-profile ôhuman rights committee formed by the Burmese military 
regime is not going much towards its stated aim of establishing a 
national human rights institution in the country. The committee?s 
over-all work is still in its early stage of studying various human 
rights mechanisms of the United Nations and its members participating in 
the human rights workshops sponsored by AusAID and Australian 
consultants, conducted by former Australian human rights commissioner 
Mr. Chris Sidoti.  

The generals set up a human rights committee in October last year after 
the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) approved the proposal of 
the Home Affairs Minister for the formation that was submitted in April 
2000.  

The eventual aim of the committee is stated to be the establishment of a 
national human rights institution in the military-run country. Secretary 
 I of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt 
heads the board of patrons with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the 
Home Affairs Minister, the Chief Justice and the Attorney General.  

Col. Tin Hlaing, the Home Affairs Minister of the regime, chairs the 
20-member Committee which has outlined three main priorities such as ôto 
study human rights question as a whole, especially activities and 
mechanisms of the United Nations and regional and national 
organizations, to study and submit proposals for the establishment of a 
national human rights institution and to form sub-committees to carry 
out its work.

It has eight sub-committees such as Home Affairs, Education, Legal 
Affairs, Health, Labour, Religious Affairs, Social Welfare and 
International Affairs sub-committees.  

Speaking at the meeting of the heads of the human rights sub-committees 
in Rangoon on February 9 this year, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs 
U Khin Maung Win said that his government is committed to having 
established a national human rights institution in the country although 
the institution might not meet the Paris Principles in full at first.  

Prof. May May Yi, Vice Chair of the government-sponsored Myanmar 
National Committee for Women?s Affairs said that women?s equality was 
recognized in Burma both in customary law and into constitutions since 
independence. Dr. Khin Win Shwe, another member of the National 
Committee for Women?s Affairs added that ôviolence against women occurs 
in Burma but it is not a big issueö. According to her, out of the survey 
their committee have done covering 80% of townships, between 3 and 15% 
of women in those townships were affected by physical violence and 
slightly more by mental violence. The causes of the violence included 
parental problems, alcoholism, adultery and family disharmony.  


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Xinhua: PLA Chief of General Staff Leaves on Three-Nation Tour

BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua)-- Fu Quanyou, chief of the General Staff of 
the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), left here for a goodwill 
visit to Maldives, Pakistan, and Myanmar. Fu, also a member of the 
Central Military Commission, is invited by Minister of State for Defense 
and National Security Abdul Sattar Anbare of Maldives, Chief Executive 
of National Security Council, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 
Committee, and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharaf of Pakistan, 
Vice-Chairman of State Peace and Development Council, Deputy 
Commander-in-chief of Defense Services, and Commander-in-chief of the 
Army of Myanmar Maung Aye.


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AP: Report--U.S. troops to join Thai fight against Myanmar drugs 

[Abridged] 

April 14, 2001

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) _ About 20 U.S. soldiers will train a special 
Thai task force in anti-drug operations in the most important American 
involvement in the fight to stem the enormous flow of drugs from 
Myanmar, a news magazine reported. 
 The American soldiers from the 1st Special Forces Group will join the 
Thai Task Force 399 as instructors from October, the Far Eastern 
Economic Review said in its latest April 19 issue made available 
Saturday. 
 In addition to the U.S. soldiers, the task force will comprise 100 Thai 
Special Forces men, two infantry companies of about 100 men each and 100 
Border Patrol Police, the Review said, quoting unidentified Thai and 
foreign security officials... 

 Thai and U.S. Embassy officials could not be immediately reached 
because of the weekend and the Thai New Year national holiday...
 
 The formation of the task force with American involvement is likely to 
further strain the uneasy Thai-Myanmar ties. Thailand accuses Myanmar of 
not doing enough to stop the United Wa State Army, an ethnic rebel group 
in Myanmar known to operate drug laboratories along the Thai border. The 
Wa, which once used to fight for independence, signed a cease-fire with 
the Myanmar government and is now aligned with the ruling military 
junta... 

 Myanmar says it has its own national masterplan aimed at eliminating 
drugs by 2014, and that a significant decline in opium production has 
already been achieved.



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The Nation: US Special Forces join drugs war

April 13, 2001



CRACK troops from the United States will join Thailand's war on drugs in 
the coming months, in a new bid to stem the enormous flow of drugs from 
Burma. 

About 20 soldiers from the US First Special Forces Group will train 
Thailand's newly formed Task Force 399 starting from October, a senior 
Third Army officer said yesterday, on condition of anonymity. 

The secretive task force - made up of 100 members of the Thai Special 
Forces, two infantry units with about 100 soldiers each and a 100-strong 
unit of Border Police - will be based out of Chiang Mai's Mae Rim 
district, the officer said. 

The American Special Forces will arrive here next month along with 5,000 
other American soldiers to take part in the annual joint-military 
exercise, Cobra Gold, with their Thai counterparts. 

Creating the anti-drugs taskforce is the latest tactic by authorities to 
curb the flow of illicit drugs, mostly methamphetamines, from areas 
under the control of Burma's armed ethnic rebels, particularly the 
United Wa State Army (UWSA), which operates with little hindrance in 
Burma's Shan State. 

Anti-narcotics cooperation between Thailand and the US has a long but 
relatively unpublicised history, Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security 
expert at Chulalongkorn University, said. 

Past operations were pretty much focused against opium-poppy cultivation 
and heroin trafficking, which Thailand sees as mainly affecting other 
countries. But because growth in synthetic stimulant abuse has become a 
local issue detrimentally impacting just about every corner of Thai 
society, said Panitan, news about the American Special Forces working 
with local troops was likely to attracted great attention. 

Up to 800 million speed pills produced in Burma's north were expected to 
flood into Thailand this year, the officer said, adding that the UWSA 
was responsible for most of the illicit drug production. 

The UWSA came into being in 1989 shortly after the fall of the Communist 
Party of Burma (CPB). It soon signed a cease-fire with the military 
government in Rangoon. The bulk of the UWSA's troops served as infantry 
for the CPB, which was backed by the Chinese Communists before it fell 
apart. 

Under an agreement with the Burmese junta that allows it some degree of 
autonomy, the 20,000-strong outfit has extended its power base in 
Burma's Shan State from along the Chinese border southward to areas 
across from Thailand's Mae Ai and Fang districts. New towns such as Mong 
Yawn and Mong Mai, built by hundreds of Thai labourers and Thai 
construction companies, have sprung up in recent years as millions of 
methamphetamine tablets, known locally as yaa baa, have been sent across 
the border and sold in Thai cities. 

The trade proceeded relatively unperturbed until two years ago when the 
bodies of nine Thai nationals from Chiang Mai's Fang district were 
discovered by the border near the Wa area. All fingers pointed to Mong 
Yawn for the murderers. Thai authorities were forced to impose economic 
sanctions against the Wa by closing the border crossing to their 
territory. 

The Burmese regime, on the other hand, has come under strong criticism 
from both Thailand and Western countries for turning a blind eye to the 
Wa's illicit activities. 

Thailand's Third Army commander, Lt General Wattanachai Chaimuanwong, 
has accused a number of top Burmese military chiefs of taking bribes 
from the Wa. 


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Bangok Post: Burma's support for scheme sought

April 14, 2001


The International Organisation of Migration is seeking Thai help to 
secure Burma's support for a micro-financing scheme for the resettlement 
of refugees in Burma.

Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathiarathai said the IOM was also interested 
in expanding work with hundreds of thousands of Burmese refugees in 
Thailand.

Brunson McKinley, the IOM director-general, had asked Thailand to help 
raise the issue of micro-credit schemes with Burmese authorities before 
the IOM broached the issue with them directly. 

"Burma should trust the IOM since they are neutral, professional and 
non-political," Mr Surakiart said.

The minister would inform Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra before 
raising the issue with his Burmese counterpart Win Aung during his visit 
to Rangoon on May 1-2.

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Japan Times: EU demands Myanmar grant rights to opposition 

April 14, 2001


GENEVA (Kyodo) The European Union on Thursday demanded freedom of 
movement for opposition leaders in Myanmar, including Nobel laureate 
Aung San Suu Kyi, and criticized the human rights record of the military 
government in Yangon.
An EU draft resolution submitted to the United Nations Human Rights 
Commission currently meeting in Geneva, called on Myanmar's government 
to release political prisoners and those detained in "government guest 
houses" and to permit "unrestricted communication with and physical 
access" to Suu Kyi and other political leaders.

It noted that human rights violations such as "extrajudicial, summary or 
arbitrary executions, enforced disappearances, rape, torture, inhuman 
treatment, mass arrests" have continued in Myanmar.

Such human rights abuses have had "a significant adverse effect on the 
health and welfare of the people of Myanmar," the draft said.

The EU also said the Myanmar government "has failed to cease its 
widespread and systematic use of forced labor of its own people" and 
called on its military rulers to work with the International Labor 
Organization. The labor group imposed sanctions on Myanmar last year.

"Concrete legislative, executive and administrative measures to 
eradicate" forced labor should be adopted, the EU said.






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Shan Herald Agency for News: Thai-Burma situation--Border still closed 

11 April 2001

One week after the conclusion of the talks between Thai and Burma 
armies, the border between Shan State's Tachilek and Thailand's Maesai 
is still closed, said sources form the area. 

The Burmese side of the bridge is still welded despite rumors of 
imminent reopening before the Songkran (Sangjarn in Shan and Thingyan in 
Burmese) water-splashing festival. 

Prices have risen at least double for most commodities. Diesel, less 
than 14 baht per liter on the Thai side, is B. 30 in Tachilek. Cooking 
gas that costs B. 170-180 per tank in Maesai has gone up to B. 700 on 
the other side.  
According to Col. Han Sein, Civil Administrator from Kengtung, the talks 
on 2-4 April did not touch on the subject of the reopening of the 
border, said a source. 

"Whereas the Thai side was proposing the resolution of drugs, Wa and 
border demarkation issues, the Burmese were counter-demanding that their 
forces be allowed to move across the border to attack Shan State Army's 
positions," said the source. 

"Of course, the Thais wouldn't budge and neither would the Burmese."  
However, according to the latest reports, MI 24 (Military Intelligence 
in Tachilek) officers have "confirmed" that the bridge is almost certain 
to be reopened tomorrow (Thursday, 12 April), the eve of the Songkran 
that falls on Friday (13 April). 

Related News 

Apart from the 40 local battalions, Rangoon is reported to have brought 
10 fresh light infantry battalions (3 from LID 66, 3 from LID 77 and 4 
from LID 88), 1 heavy weapons unit and 1 armored unit. The armored unit 
is to be stationed at Nawngmon Village in Kengtung. The present 
occupant, IB 224, is to be moved to a new location near Mongkhawn and 
Mongpak, 10 miles southwest of Kengtung. 



[Updated to 12 April]


Despite high hopes by local people on both sides of the border, the  
Friendship Bridge on the Maesai between Thailand's Maesai and Shan 
State's  Tachilek remains closed. Whether it will indeed reopen tomorrow 
continues  to be a question mark, reported the sources.


Thai merchandise goes up in smoke

At 11:30 on 7 April, citizens of Tachilek were summoned to the Shan Yoma 
 department store, where confiscated Thai commodities were kept. 

A road-roller was brought in to crush the goods, estimated at B. 
200,000.  They were then put to fire in front of the people present. 

Thai kerosene seized

On 9 April, Tachilek's municipality officials raided shops to search for 
 Thai-made kerosene, usually blue colored or red colored. The seizure on 
 that day alone filled up the officials' six-wheeled truck, said the 
sources. 


_______________OPINION/EDITORIALS_________________




The Irrawaddy: Chavalit Looking Forward to Returning to the Past

April 11, 2001


By Aung Zaw

April 11, 2001 -- The recent offer by Defense Minister Chavalit 
Yongchaiyudh to assist Burma has indicated an attempt to shift Thai 
policy toward its western neighbor. Yet this shift may spell disaster 
for both Burma and Thailand. 
Gen Chavalit, who once served as prime minister as well as army chief, 
said he would push for development in Burma. This development will 
include the construction of a port and a coalmine as a means of helping 
to solve the problems of drug trafficking, illegal migration and other 
cross-border crimes. 
"I would like to see our neighbors become prosperous at the same time as 
we do," Gen Chavalit said, adding, "If we are developed while our 
neighbor continues to live in poverty, then peace will not be possible." 
This feeling, Chavalit said, came from "the bottom of my heart." 

In fact, Chavalit has been "a true friend of Burma" for at least 13 
years now. Soon after the military crushed the democracy uprising in 
Burma in 1988, Chavalit, who was then army chief-of-staff, was the first 
high-ranking foreign official to visit Burma, breaking the country's 
diplomatic isolation. Gen Saw Maung, Burma's coup leader, welcomed 
Chavalit, calling Thailand "a true friend of Burma." This was in 
December 1988, just three months after the coup. 

The purpose of that trip was not only to boost the political and 
economic ambitions of Gen Chavalit, who had his sights set on becoming 
the Thai Prime Minister, but also to expand Thai investment in 
resource-rich Burma. 

Following the trip, an army of Thai businessmen and officials paid a 
flurry of visits to 
Burma, during which major logging and fishing contracts were signed. 

According to official documents and analysts, at least 20 concession 
areas were granted along the Thai-Burma border and fishery companies 
such as the Atlantic Corporation and Mars & Co. each received permission 
to catch 250,000 tons of fish in Burmese waters. Thus critics of 
Thailand's new found "friendship" towards Burma began to describe the 
relationship as one based on the cooperative looting of Burma's 
resources, facilitated by generals on both sides of the border. 

More importantly, Chavalit's action saved the generals in Burma, as the 
country's foreign exchange reserves were very low, prompting analysts to 
predict that the military government was about to fall. Ordinary Burmese 
and activists immediately criticized these "friendly ties" between the 
two army leaders. Leaflets distributed secretly in Rangoon denounced 
Chavalit and his business deals. 

At that time, Burmese activists in Thailand were used as pawns. When 
Chavalit returned home with a pile of business contracts, Burmese 
activists who had fled to Thailand from political persecution were told 
to go back home. Hundreds of student activists were sent back to Burma. 
To this day, Chavalit maintains a special relationship with his "dear 
brothers" in Rangoon. Now, the generals in Burma must indeed be 
delighted to see that their old friend "Big Jiew" has again assumed a 
high-ranking position in the Thaksin-led government. However, most 
Burmese at home and abroad see this as sign of trouble. 

Now, it seems, Chavalit wants to help Burma again. Since he became 
deputy prime minister and minister of defense, many have been expecting 
that Chavalit's policy toward Burma will be based on business and 
personal ties. Chavalit has made no attempt to deny this. 

Chavalit has no shortage of ideas to "help" Burmaone of them is "cross 
border development", as he recently summed it up to Thai reporters. He 
has talked about a Salween dam project, a port in the Gulf of Martaban 
and a large coalmine opposite Bang Saphan district of Prachuap Khiri 
Khan province. 

Ambitious ideas indeed. Yet what Chavalit omitted in his proposals was 
to consider Burma's ongoing problems and conflicts. On the border areas 
with Thailand, insurgency is a part of life. Also, Burmese leaders have 
still not demonstrated their sincerity about fighting the drug problem. 

Chavalit's "cross border development" proposals will remain meaningless 
if he cannot comprehend the existing problems in ethnic areas. Take a 
look at the United Wa State Army, accused by Thailand of manufacturing 
massive quantities of methamphetamines for the Thai market. Rangoon 
claims that the UWSA-controlled town of Mong Yawn has flourished because 
of its border development projects and mining concessions, yet it is 
nothing but a big headache for Thailand.  

All that is clear at the moment is Chavalit's claim that he wants to 
assist Burma. Or does he simply want to repeat his 1988 business deals? 
In any case, it is obvious that he is looking forward to returning to an 
out-dated arrangement with the regime in Rangoon that has done 
absolutely nothing to ameliorate the poverty of ordinary Burmese, but 
has substantially enhanced the fortunes of the generals and their 
"friends".  

In February, Chavalit sent his trusted aides, including Gen. Pat 
Akkanibutr, to Rangoon to attend the funeral of Lt-Gen Tin Oo, who died 
in a helicopter crash in South Burma. 

These aides also met high-ranking Burmese officials, including Lt-Gen 
Khin Nyunt. Subsequently, Gen Pat Akkanibutr, chief adviser to Chavalit, 
launched a friendship association with Burma in a bid to promote 
cultural and business ties between the two countries. As things stand, 
however, Chavalit needs to garner more support for his plan. 
On the domestic front, Chavalit faces some obstacles. Professional Thai 
army leaders dislike him, and his proposal to visit Burma was greeted 
with strong criticism. Today, given the current military stalemate 
between the two countries, going to Burma could be perceived as 
compromising Thailand's national interests. 

It is also debatable how much good new deals with Burma would do to help 
Thailand resolve its own economic woes. Thailand has an energy surplus, 
as demand has decreased since the economic went bust in 1997. Another 
coal plant would only contribute to the current energy glut, making a 
handful of businessmen and officials wealthier, but leaving Thailand's 
more pressing needs unattended. 

Unfortunately, Chavalit has sent the wrong signals to both the Burmese 
people and the international community, even though the Burmese leaders 
might be thanking him from bottom of their hearts for expressing his 
wish to help their country. Burma needs more than shortsighted 
"solutions" to end its countless social, economic and political crises. 
Hopefully Thais will also realize that what their own country needs is 
reform, not a return to a flawed vision of "development" that has 
already cost the region more than anybody cares to calculate.  




______________________OTHER______________________




Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule?new book by former BurmaNet 
editor


Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule?new
By Christina Fink

About the Book

"Christina Fink's Living Silence is a meticulous study of the surreal  
horror imposed upon the people of Burma by its illegitimate rulers. Read 
 this book and never forget them."
- John Pilger


Through this wide-ranging survey of Burmese society, we begin to 
understand  what it means to be governed by a repressive military 
dictatorship. We also  learn about the innovative forms of resistance of 
some courageous Burmese.  Christina Fink explores the remarkable range 
of strategies and techniques  which the military regime has used to 
maintain itself in power. She  presents the political history of the 
country since independence in 1948,  and a wide diversity of people and 
communities -students, soldiers,  religious figures, the artistic 
community, and political prisoners. She  concludes by examining the 
internationalisation of Burma's politics. 


"makes an important contribution towards an understanding of the root  
causes of the problems and choices that the people of Burma are facing  
today." - Aung San Suu Kyi



       A graphic, moving and insightful picture of daily life for 
ordinary  Burmese
       An exceptionally readable yet scholarly account which fills a 
major  gap in the literature
      Original material drawn from extensive interviews conducted inside 
 and outside Burma


CONTENTS

Introduction - Historical Legacies: Spirits, Martyrs and Imperialists -  
1962-1988: The Ne Win Years - Breaking the Silence: 1988-90 - Military 
Rule  Continues - Families: Fostering Conformity - Communities: Going 
with the  Flow - The Military: A Life Sentence - Prison: 'Life 
University' -  Education: Floating Books and Bathroom Tracts - The 
Artistic Community: In  the Dark, Every Cat is Black - Religion and 
Magic: Disappearing Jewels and  Poltergeists - The Internationalization 
of Burma's Politics - Conclusion: A  Different Burma


About THE AUTHOR

Dr. Christina Fink trained as an anthropologist at the University of  
California, Berkeley and served as the editor of the BurmaNet News from  
mid-1995 through 1997. This is her first book.


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Talk by Burma Charge' d'Affaires Priscilla A. Clapp on April 18, 2001

Announcement

WHAT: Charge' d'Affaires Priscilla A. Clapp will discuss the status of 
the dialogue and address how the U.S might respond to Burma and the 
overtures made to Aung San Suu Kyi by the SPDC.  
WHEN: April 18, 2001 (8:30 am - 9:45 am) 

WHERE: The St. Regis Hotel, 923 16th & K Streets, N.W. 
By Metro: Farragut North (2 blocks) and McPherson Square (3 blocks)  

**** RESERVATION and PAYMENT required by noon, Monday April 16th ****  
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