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Dhaka, 24th September 03: "The visiting Burmese military delegation on Sunday visited a hilly district town in the southeastern part of Bangladesh.
The twelve-member high-level military team led by Lieutenant General Aung Htwe, commander of the Burmese defence ministry, called at a Buddhist monastery in Rangamati Town in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, about three hundred kilometres southeast of Dhaka. The team met the abbot of the monastery, popularly known as Bana Bhante (the forest monk) who is well known for his rigorous meditation and respected by a huge number of followers. Later they had a boat ride in the Kaptai Lake built by erecting a hydro-electrical power station by damming the River Karnafuli..."
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Narinjara news
Date of Publication:
2003-09-24
Date of entry:
2003-09-28
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