Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA)
"Independent Mon News Agency is formed by former Mon students,
youth and democratic activists based in Mon State, Union of Burma
in 1999. Members of the agency are not affiliated to any political organizations.
Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) is based in Thailand and Burma that founded by youth of Mon ethnic nationality in Southeast Asia. IMNA is a non-profitable news agency and covering news a bout Mon Community in Thailand, Mon Community in Burma and about Burma. IMNA is an independent Mon news agency producing fair and balance news through Internet, Mon newspaper, radio and community radio.
Every month, IMNA is publishing Mon language newspaper called Guiding Star, be targeted Mon audience in Thailand and Burma. IMNA also have Mon DVB radio program, part of the Democratic Voice of Burma that broadcasting from Norway and IMNA also producing news through via and Monnet mail list which is run by Mon community in United State of America.
IMNA also started a community FM radio in Hlockhani Mon refugee camp in Thai-Burma border. IMNA is trying to extend in Mon state, southern Burma..."
... Archive from October 2002.
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[18 October, 2004]*:
"Some of the voice of a representative at the Burmese Military Government National Convention...
These Questions and Answers were written by a representative who attended the Burmese Military Government National Convention as an ethnic national representative. He wrote about his experience and sent it to the Independent Mon News Agency in his own handwriting:..."
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October 7, 2004 (Karen State):
"The Burmese army based in Three Pagoda and village headmen gathered all of the residents of a village of Three Pagoda township Oct. 6 and gave them orders regarding seizure of their land.
Burmese army No. 63 gathered the Choo-cha-plu villagers in the primary school, where army officers told them they are going to confiscate the land and measure it..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-07
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2004-11-07
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October 8, 2004:
"Burmese army base in Khaw-zar village southern Ye Township, Mon State use 13-20 years, young girls by forcing as model girls showing fashion to entertain their commander in the army camp during the night time everyday, according to the villager arrived the border, confirmed by the IMNA source in the area..."
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Independent Mon News Agency (Southern Burma)
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2004-10-08
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November 4, 2004:
"During the recent military government crackdown on cars without
licenses, cars owners were arrested and taken to court by authorities
for illegal trading.
At least 40 car owners were arrested in Mon State and faced court
under the legal section of Act No. 31 for illegal car trading, Nai
Jorn reported..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-04
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2004-11-07
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October 9, 2004:
"Burmese military Border Security Administration (BSA) authorities in Myawadi barred importing goods to inside Burma and it made foodstuffs price jumped-up immediately according to trader and food-stall inside Burma.
?Mostly oil, Ajinomoto... and milk price jumped up in four days,” said Nai Myit (not real name) a food-stall owner in Moulmein, Mon State city..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-09
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2004-11-07
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November 4, 2004:
"The case of a patient in the Thanpyuzayart town hospital ended with the unreasonable denial by the Burmese military commander in the area that the soldier who beat the patient ran away, according to the patient?s family.
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The patient, Nai Hamard, 44, has been taking treatment for serious wounds after he was beaten by three soldiers of the Southeast Military Command No.4 military training battalion in Waekali, Thanpyuzayart township, while reaping rice in the paddy on his farm about one mile from the battalion on Oct. 26..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-04
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October 4, 2004:
"A teenager and a woman from Kyauk-kadin village, Yepyu Township of Tenasserim Division in southern Burma were raped by the Burmese Army soldiers. Although the villagers complained to take action against the rapers for the cases, the commander of the Burmese Army denied it according to a villager from this village who arrived the border recently..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-04
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October 17, 2004:
"The Burmese army is distributing a flyer to recruit soldiers for their army in Southern Mon State with the title: ?To Protect the Country Join the Army,” Nai Choan reported.
?Yesterday local army authorities went village to village in Thanpyuzayart and Mudon townships to put flyers at the crossroads and in the main villages to increase their soldiers' number,” he said..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-17
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October 30, 2004:
"The first Easy Learning Mon Video VCD made by Sanghklaburi based Winyangita Foundation for Mon people who can?t read and write Mon, the Winyangita Foundation Director said.
?You do not need to have a teacher, you can have this CD and learn it by following reading alphabets and listen the voice in it,” said Nai Orkpung..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-30
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2004-11-07
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September 29, 2004:
"Yesterday, Burmese military government released eight New Mon State Party members that were arrested on June 29 2004, the day of NMSP made cease-fire agreement reached for 9 years. But there are more than three of NMSP members from Tavoy district have been arrested on September 14 by the Burmese government and it made more badly relationship between NMSP and the government..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-29
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2004-11-07
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BY Lao Htaw, Independent Mon News Agency
4 October 2004*:
Interview with Larry Jagan, a Burma specialist on politic and he said ?I think that the opening of the second session of the NC gives the ethnic leaders a new opportunity but they must be strong. If I was an ethnic leader, I would go to the NC but I would not buckle under. They have to protest, they have to speak out, they have to force the authorities to allow them to meet each other. And more importantly as an ethnic leader I would want to see all ethnic leaders signing up to one agreement. Please read the whole interview at the below...
Lao Htaw
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-04
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November 6, 2004:
"Hided Three Fire Booms exploded in the crowded people in Kyaikkamort pagoda festival in Kamawet village Mudon township and more than 20 people wounded including an Actresses from Mon Oung Sorn Drama Performance group. Because one Fire Bomb explosion blew up in the drama stage show, some curtains were burned and the stage show has stopped until last night..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-06
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2004-11-07
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October 13, 2004:
"Villagers in the area between Ye and Yepyu township where Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt wants to have development, have been detained in their villages by Burmese troops, according to villagers from the area.
According to a New Mon State Party (NMSP) officer, NMSP leaders asked General Khin Nyunt to allow the NMSP to do activities in the area when they met with him in September. But General Khin Nyunt denied the NMSP request for the reason that the area was undeveloped and needed to develop. The government wants to do development in the area and barred the NMSP, he said.
However, Burmese troops under command of Military Operation Management Command (MOMC) No.19, instead of doing development, banned villagers from leaving their villages and did more human rights violations to villagers in the area..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-13
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By Sike (IMNA), Moulmein
"Mon Drama performance groups joined altogether and honored to the respected senior Mon drama leaders in Ceremony in capital of Mon State, Moulmein yesterday before they started their performance in coming dry season.
Nine Mon Drama performance groups honored the elder performers in Mon community hall according the Buddhism respecting of elderly people, invited 14 drama elderly performers from Mon State and Karen State and made a devotional offering to them in the ceremony, according to Nai Mon Oung Kyaw Son, the leader of honoring committee, and the head of Mon Kyae Lai drama performance group..."
Sike (IMNA)
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-27
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2004-11-07
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November 1, 2004:
"Burmese military government is cracking down the cars and motorbikes without licenses in the whole country and there are about five hundreds cars were seized in Mandalay according to a car trader in Mon State..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-01
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2004-11-07
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September 30, 2004:
"Burmese military government, Minister of Energy (ME) reduced selling oil 50% to the owner of vehicles that registered with the government according to car owners who are routing their car in Southern Burma..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-30
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2004-11-07
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November 1, 2004:
"Army officers from the Southeast Command Military Training Battalion No. 4 have been talking to people regarding the military government?s party line on the constitution in public shops and while meeting people.
?The military officers in Southern Mon state treated the people with good relations as they wanted to talk to them to explain that their top leaders are drawing up a constitution which international people would accept, in tea shops, on trips and while meeting people,” Nai Jorn, an IMNA source, reported..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-01
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2004-11-07
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October 12, 2004:
"Mon National Democratic Front elected leaders in 1990, who were released on June 4, 2004, were closed check by Burmese military intelligent (MI) according to these leader friends and family said.
?MI regularly came to the neighbor house MNDF Secretary, Dr. Nai Soe Lin who strongly debated to the government, and asked a lot of question what Dr. Nai Soe Lin doing,” a Dr. Nai Soe Lin family said..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-12
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2004-11-07
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October 15, 2004:
"Mon State Peace and Development Council (MSPDC) ordered Chaungzon (Bilu ?Kyoon) township Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) to from a USDA battalion in township where National League for Democracy (NLD) were be powerless according to USDA meeting decision.
MSPDC Secretary Lt-Col Soe Myint Aung ordered to form it quickly during USDA meeting for September that was held on October 3, 2004..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-15
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2004-11-07
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November 2, 2004:
"Between the Burmese army and a Karen cease-fire group, Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), which is based near the Thai-Burma border in Three Pagoda Pass has reached tension, after Ex-Prime minister Gen Khin Nyunt was dismissed.
?It was started after DKBA denied to the Burmese army demanding to have a meeting with them after Gen Khin Nyunt and MI were discharged,” a source close to DKBA said..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-02
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2004-11-07
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November 6, 2004:
"The military government new law against the illegal transferring money, things and giving information for these kinds of things are likely the law kills the people inside Burma; Southern Thailand based Federation of Trade Unions ? Burma (FTUB) General Secretary said.
The new law sections an act No. 35 (Kha) declared on Nov.3 with the sign of Senior General Than Shwe and the law is for barring illegal transferring money, things and giving information to these kinds of work. In the law, the government will sentence three years to people whom working in transferring money..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-11-06
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By Chan Mon (IMNA) (Yepyu)... 27 September 2004...
"A leg cut patient who stepped on the landmine during he returned home from fishing could not go to take treatment inside Burma because of no citizen card said by the patient?s father who brought his son to a Christian Hospital in Thai-Burma border for four days walked from his camp.
Bo Naung, 23 years old stepped landmine, where was his father and friend passed before him when they went back to home, in east part of Ye Pyu Township, near Internal Displace People (IDP) camp called Chao Done according to his father, Mr.U Chit..."
Chan Mon
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-28
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2004-11-07
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October 1, 2004:
"Currently Burmese military government army has been using local villager in Southern Ye Township at the road construction everyday.
One person from each house in Ywa Thit village, Singu village and Hangan village are ordered by Tactical Commander Colonel Nyi Nyi to build a new road for connecting these three villages..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Mon News Agency (Southern Burma
Date of publication:
2004-10-01
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2004-11-07
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October 29, 2004:
"The Three Pagoda Pass-based Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) was barred by the Burmese army from joining in the annual traditional Padaytor Pint, in which a tree is hung with various items as offerings at the end of Buddhist Lent..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-10-29
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2004-11-07
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September 23, 2004 (Southern Burma):
"The Burmese Army arrested five villagers in southern Mon State with suspicion rebels? parents at 11:00 Am yesterday and additionally restricted the villagers? movement to work in their paddy-farms and orchid plantation.
?Burmese Army Battalion (LIB) No.586, Colonel Ngwe Soe arrested four parents of Mon rebels from Hongsarwatoi Restoration Party (HRP) in our village called Kaw-hlaing, in southern part of Ye Township, Mon State,” said villagers..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-09-23
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2004-09-23
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September 20, 2004:
"Hongsarwatoi Restoration Headquarter (HRP) seized by an unknown armed group and one of HRP chairman daughter died on the spot and his wife and other one of his soldier wounded after the fighting according to HRP member.
The HRP headquarters in Tavoy District, in Thailand-Burma border area was seized on September 18?s morning after an armed groups entered in there and fired to HRP chairman Nai Pan Nyunt shelter house according to HRP spoke-person Mr. Nai Kon Chan Nai..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-09-20
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2004-09-23
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September 21, 2004 (Southern Mon State, Burma):
"Villagers are forced to give wooden poles for a Burmese Army?s new battalion, which deploys in Khaw-zar village, in southern Ye Township, Mon State, accordingly to the villagers.
?Each house has to give 10 leaves for roofing the barracks and every two houses have to give a wooden pole. Our Yin-dein villagers are also forced to give to Infantry Battalion No.31,” said Mr. Nai Kung Sike. IB No. 31 is currently taking patrol in the area and taking responsibility for a new battalion deployment in Khaw-zar, a biggest village in the area..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-09-21
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2004-09-23
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September 23, 2004 (Upper Mon State):
"Five family lives in Tha-mar-saing villages which on the road between Thaton and Beelin towns in Mon State have to makeshifts after their houses were destroyed by the gas-pipeline explosion and no compensation paid by the military regime SPDC.
?The houses belonged to five families in the village were seriously burnt on September 17, 2004 night at about 10:00 p.m,” said the villagers..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-09-23
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2004-09-23
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"Deputy Chief Commander of South-East Command, Brigadier General Myo Hla is on trip to Myawadi border town with Thailand, the imported Thai goods is on a still-stand situation, said by SPDC?s Border Area Administration Department (Nasaka) said trader..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-09-14
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2004-09-19
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September 13, 2004 (Southern Mon State Ye):
"A house which the Mon rebel fired to 6 Burmese (SPDC) soldiers while falling in asleep was totally burnt down by the Burmese soldiers and household heads were also arrested on the next day, the villagers told IMNA yesterday.
The burnt house was in Mi-Htaw-hlar village, southern Ye Township, where 4 Burmese soldiers among 6 under the command of Light Infantry Battalion No. 282 were shot to death by the Mon rebels while they were sleeping on August 29..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-13
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2004-09-19
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September 14, 2004 (Thanpyuzayat, Mon State):
"Commanders of No. 4 Military Training School under the command of Burmese Army?s South-East Command, in Thanbyuzayat Township are measuring 490 acres of rubber and orchid plantations belonged to the civilians in Wae-ka-li village in order to confiscate for their own business..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-14
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2004-09-19
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September 18, 2004 (Karen State, Border):
"A Karen ceasefire armed group, Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) which has bad name in treating the local people, gets support from the people after halting trader Ms. Daw Saw Khin and Township Peace and Development Council?s (Ma Ya Ka) plan for building the lacquer and furniture market in public ground in Three Pagoda Pass (TPP) border city..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-18
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2004-09-19
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"Four Burmese soldiers died in landslide on the road of Myawadi to Mawlamyine (Mon State city) during heaving raining last night according to trader..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-10
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2004-09-19
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"Many people said they did not know why they become as members of Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA) while this SPDC hand-picked organization is currently extending its members in Mon State.
?I did not know why myself became a USDA member because of my village headmen filled in the USDA member registration form. When USDA leaders came and asked our Village Peace and Development Council to extend 20 members in this year for the village, my name was put,” said Mr. Nai Myo a villager from Kwan-hlar village Mudon Township..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-08
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2004-09-19
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"Hongsarwatoi Restoration Party (HRP) does not want to talk for cease-fire to the regime SPDC, if the regime does not setup exact time frames for political reform in Burma, said by HRP leader amid many other ethnic armed groups have agreed for ceasefire.
?We want genuine peace, but if the government does not setup time schedule for the political reform in Burma and the problems in Mon State continue and if there is no international mediator, no way we wouldn?t talk to the regime,” said HRP Chairman Nai Pan Nyunt..."
Chan Mon
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ndependent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-09-16
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2004-09-19
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September 3, 2004:
"In Three Pagoda Pass border town, trading between Thailand and Burma decreased down in comparison with the previous years and many traders shifted their trading to Myawaddy-Maesot border point, according to the traders.
According to a general groceries trader, Mr. U Moe Kha, he said there is no profit to import Thai goods due to expensive transporting costs and taxes levied by the Burmese Army and many other ethnic armed groups..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2003-09-03
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2004-09-03
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September 1, 2004:
"International Labor Organization (ILO) should try to have more access to rural area in southern Mon state, Burma and it should not conduct its activities only in cities/towns, in order to know forced labor situation, the village headmen from southern part of Ye Township demanded.
?Even ILO monitoring the situation of force labor in Burma and the government issued Order 1/99, the use forced labor by the Burmese government is not really stopping in our area,” a village headman from a village near Khaw-za village, who was in anonymity situation told IMNA.
?There are a lot of Order 1/99 paper sheets put on the wall in the Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC) office in the villages in both Burmese and English. Although currently the Burmese Army under the command of Military Operation Management Command (MOMC) No.19 have forced villagers all the time to work in the road construction, pieces of works in army camp and as porters, the villagers never received any payment,” he added..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-09-01
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2004-09-01
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August 24, 2004:
"The SPDC authorities in Pegu city have forced the residents on a rotation basis to guard and patrol around their city for security and if the residents fail to perform their duties they have to pay, according to Pegu residents..."
Chan Mon
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Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-08-24
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2004-08-25
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August 23, 2004:
"Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) are checking and registering adult population of most families in towns situating southern Mon state in order to raise awareness about USDA and organize the people with business opportunity..."
Chan Mon
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2004-08-23
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"Strangely, lot of dogs infected with hydrophobia in Three Pagoda Town, 18 peoples included children bitten by these dogs and one man died with hydrophobia.
Thur Pu, 21 year olds from Kya-inn-seikyi Township who was working in Three Pagoda, died on yesterday morning with hydrophobia after suffering bitten three days ago according to his friends..."
Mon Kyae & Thu Rein
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2004-08-20
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2004-08-22
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August 19, 2004"
"An unpaid forced laborer working in a road repair was seriously beaten by the Burmese soldiers, as he took a rest for a while during the Burmese Army is planning to convert a village to be a Sub-Town in Southern Mon State, according to a local resident.
Everyday 10 civilians from a quarter from Khaw-zar Sub-Town and 10 civilians from each village around the area forced to work in a road repairs. The road connects from one village to another in the area and have re-built the road since the end of 2003 with forced labor contributed by civilians. The military regime is also planning to promote the administration of Khaw-zar village to be a Sub-Town, which is about 10 miles from Ye Town in Mon State.
?At least three or four people were beaten everyday from a village,” said Mr. Nai Kon Mon who witnessed the mis-treatment and was also forced in the road repairs recently..."
Chan Mon
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-19
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2004-08-19
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August 6, 2004:
"About 30 heroin smugglers killed each other in the Martaban Sea, southwestern part of Burma, before the the military regime SPDC authorities and Military Intelligence (MI) seized about 830 kilograms (1, 660 pounds) heroin from a Mon smuggler in Hnit-kayin, a coastal village, Ye township, southern Mon State, according to the villagers..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-06
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2004-08-13
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July 14, 2004:
"Almost furniture and lacquer factories are ordered to close down after the government rigidly pressure them to make logging permission although the leaders of Furniture Factory Association compromises with SPDC authorities in Three Pagoda Pass town to reduce tax for permission, accordingly to a member of the Association.
?The authorities want us to pay for the logs that we use in the factories as concession or permission cost again. But we don?t want to pay because we bought the logs that already paid tax for their concessions,” said Mr. Nai Tin Win, a Furniture Factory Association member..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-14
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2004-08-13
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June 4, 2004:
"Burmese Army bases in Mon State ordered to Village Peace and Development Council to confiscated 800 acres farmland for army after they held a meeting with village PDC chairpersons in Thanbyuzayat Town, the villages PDC members said.
?The Infantry Battalion No.31?s Army Officer ordered to confiscate farmlands for four battalions that base in Thanbyuzayat,” said Hnee Padaw village PDC members and Kwanhlar villge PDC members..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-04
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2004-08-13
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May 25, 2004:
"Because of payment to broker too expensive, the cost for applying to get (Mon State) Ma La Ma motorbike license costs are higher than before, the local traders said..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-25
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2004-08-13
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June 11, 2004:
"Burmese military regime?s Dramatic Art Council ordered to Mon dramatic performers in Mon State and Karen State to put a piece of Burmese traditional opera in their show..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-06-11
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2004-08-13
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August 3, 2004:
"Burmese military government destroyed New Mon State Party (NMSP) school signboard and put government school signboard in Mon State, southern Ye township said a Mon teacher in the area.
?Now some Mon National School (MNS) signboards have already been changed to the signboard of government schools”, said the teacher..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-03
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2004-08-13
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June 18, 2004:
"Burmese Police based in Three Pagoda Pass interrogated and asked for money from migrant workers who are deported back from Thailand. ?If the migrant worker can?t pay the amount they asked, they are tortured” said a migrant worker who was deported on yesterday.
Recently even the government media MRTV and MRTV 3 reported the government would help the migrant workers as much as possible, but the Three Pagoda Pass polices just asking money from them and also seized the belongings said by the migrant worker..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-18
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2004-08-13
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July 14, 2004"
"Burmese women can be jailed for a maximum of three years if military police find them carrying a condom, says Liz Hilton the spokesperson of EMPOWER, a Thai organisation that supports and educates sex workers.
Hilton, who is representing EMPOWER (Chiang Mai) at the 2004 AIDS Conference, said that women in Burma are at risk - regardless of whether they are sex workers, domestic workers, or teachers. "What women are saying is that the police assume any woman with a condom is a sex worker. And the result is that many women in Burma are now too afraid to carry condoms, in case the police arrest them"..."
Ms.Hong Sar
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-14
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2004-08-13
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July 20, 2004:
"A decision to open a Mon Monks? University in Mon State is made by the famous senior Mon monks, Mon community leaders and some New Mon State Party leaders in the capital of Mon State, said Ajar Damma Dinna a Mon monk from United State who support this University said..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-20
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2004-08-13
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June 27, 2004:
"Although there is heavy rains and most parts of motor road are destroyed by the rain, the traders continue illegally importing second hand car from Japan into Burma.
?Every day more than 15 cars are imported into Burma through Mae-katha road across jungles,” said the source close to the KNU checkpoint officer Kyaw Tint.
?Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and a Karen surrender group called KPF (Karen Peace Force) has taken responsibility in bringing these cars,” added the source..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-27
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2004-08-13
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August 3, 2004:
"The villagers in a village in Southern Ye Township are escaping from the soldiers? arrest for the conscription of porters while their village is under flood according to the villagers.
?The villager are hiding and escaping. The soldiers are trying to arrest the men to use them as porters in the military operations against the Mon splinter groups. Many times, the men are loud their voice ?Karoute” Karoute (in Mon language) in Hangan to escape from the arrest even while the village is under water of three feet in depth,” said a monk come from the Hangan village..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-03
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2004-08-13
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June 22, 2004:
"Ferry association set a new rule restricting the ceased-fire groups to not use boat ferry by force where those groups always use it along Zami river, a main route in rainy season from Three-Pagoda-Pass border town to a town in Karen State, Kya-inn-seikyi.
?We do not allow cease-fire armed groups to use boat ferries by force along the route from Three-Pagoda-Pass? Kya-inn-seikyi. We will only allow the government officers to use those ferries as they like,” said Mr. U Than Win, Boat Ferry Transport Association chairperson..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-22
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2004-08-13
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June 18, 2004:
"Three ethnic armed groups monopolized buying bamboo-shoot this year in Three Pagoda Pass area, opposite of Thailand?s Kanchanburi Province, according to Ms. Mi Mor a former bamboo shoot trader said.
?New Mon State Party, Karen National Union and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (which base in the area) forbid the former bamboo shoot traders to buy bamboo-shoot this year and the armed groups will do buying with their own arrangment today,” Ms. Mor added..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-18
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2004-08-13
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New Mon State Party (NMSP) General Secretary, Nai Hong Sar was interviewed by Loa Htaw, Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA), in Sangkhlaburi on what Burmese government accused on their members as criminals. But he refused the accusation and continues talking about what NMSP and other cease-fire groups? request to military government, SPDC, in the recent National Convention. Here in the full transcript of the interview.
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-10
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2004-08-13
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June 30, 2004:
"The Burmese military government authorities in Mon state are forcing the local villagers in southern Mon State to fence along the route of gas pipeline on a daily basis in order to prevent potential sabotages.
?They ordered to fence the gas pipeline which across the streams and fill earth on the iron pipes in order to put the gas-pipelines under the ground,” said Mr. Nai Khit Chai, a Wae-win-kara villager, Thanbyuzayart Township..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-30
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2004-08-13
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July 27, 2004:
"Burma?s regime authorities from Ye Township Peace and Development Council (Ye TPDC) forcibly moved 300 houses in a Mon village in Mon State, Southern Burma, in order to build police station and hospital by force to build it police station and accordingly to the villagers.
?Ye TPDC not only forced us to move the house, they also confiscated eight acres of orchid plantation and ten acres of paddy-farms land in the Du-yar village in northern Ye township,” said Mr. Nai Mon Chan, the villager who closes to Ye TPDC..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-27
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2004-08-13
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August 2, 2004:
"Each furniture or lacquer factory in Three Pagoda Pass has to pay three hundreds thousands kyat (about 300 $ US) to the Burmese military government for factory concession and they have to pay log permission too to open their factory again according to the furniture and lacquer factories owners.
?We also have to pay eight thousands kyat every year for extending concession and 25 thousands kyat (about 30 $ US) for a ton to buy log permission..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-02
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2004-08-13
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May 25, 2004:
"The Burmese military regime SPDC has tried to close down Mon National School where there are more than 13,000 Mon student attended and operated by by New Mon State Party?s Edccation Department in Ye township in order to transform them as government schools, but NMSP will oppose the attempts, NMSP spoke person said..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-25
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2004-08-13
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June 26, 2004:
"During UEFA, in the capital and in southern part of Burma, Burmese people are widely gambling as legal game after bribed to Military Intelligence and gambling organizers won in the French vs Greece match according to the gambling organizer in Rangoon..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-26
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2004-08-13
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The IMNA archive on OBL currently contains more than 230 IMNA stories from October 2002. The archive metadata can be browsed, or searched by keyword.
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OBL-IMNA
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2004-08-13
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2004-08-13
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Now Independent Mon News Agency is updated Mon Language webpage.
http://www.monnews-imna.com/mon/index.htm
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2004-07-21
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2004-08-13
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July 17, 2004:
"Killing, rape, porter and torturing ? other human rights violations continues by the soldiers of Burmese Army in Southern Ye Township, Southern Burma, according to fifteen villagers who fled from their villages to escape the abuses and arrived to the Mon refugee resettlement camp on July 15.
?Burmese soldiers from Battalion No.273 based in Kanbauk, in Yebyu Township have on a rotation basis used 15 villagers as porters and as human-shields while they lunched offensives against the Mon splinter group. Many villagers were beaten, fed with insufficient food and had to carry heavy ammunitions. The villagers who were suspected supporting splinter group were killed and tortured,” said Mr. Nai Lwi Mon who arrived Hlockhani refugee resettlement camp..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-17
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2004-08-13
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June 25, 2004:
"A Karen cease-fire armed group, KPF (Karen Peace Force - which stands literally in Burmese ? Kayin Nyein Chan Ye Ah Pwae) kidnapped six sex workers from a brothel house and this armed group threatened the owner to close down that house situates in No.2 city quarter, Three Pagoda Pass, a Thai-Burma border townin southern Burma..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-25
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2004-08-13
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May 21, 2004:
"Three children and a woman are missing after the strong water destroyed seven houseboats in a village in western part of the three Pagoda Pass Township..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-21
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2004-08-13
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July 25, 2004:
"Mon singers requested to their Mon audiences that to not buy the pirate Mon CDs and tapes produced by the businessmen, and they asked the Mon audiences to buy only the original CDs and tapes after the illegal copied CDs and tapes are widespread sold in the Mon community..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-25
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2004-08-13
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May 19, 2004:
"More than four hundreds Mon youth community from two states and a division finished ?Mon History” exam in Mon State City under the leading of a famous monk, Tala Goon Ajar Par Li Ta yesterday.
The exam intends for teenager and upper teenager age Mon to understand Mon literature and Mon old town history, Summery Mon Literature School leader, Ajar Par Li Ta organized it at the 2500 Buddhist Years temple in Mawlamyine..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-19
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2004-08-13
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August 6, 2004:
"New Mon State Party (NMSP) General Secretary refused what Burmese government accuses on eight of their soldiers as criminals for scary people by guns in collecting tax money.
The NMSP Leader said that eight soldiers who have been accused as criminals and arrested by the SPDC authorities in Ye township, Mon State are Nai Ron Nai, Nai Tala Lawi, Nai Aung Yin and five others on June 29, on the day of 9th anniversary of NMSP cease-fire with regime..."
Loa Htaw
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-06
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2004-08-13
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Dear Mon Friend, Song Lover,
New Mon singer (Kra Weat Htaw) song album will distribute to Mon people and
Rae Mharn VCD karaoke is distributing to Mon community.
For the Kra Weat Htaw album,
You can visit www.monnews-imna.com/mon
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-26
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2004-08-13
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May 11, 2004:
"The representatives from New Mon State Party, the biggest Mon armed group already arrived Ragoon for attending Burmese government?s National Convention that will hold on May 17.
New Mon State Party, which made cease-fire since 1995, sent its five representatives to Ragoon on yesterday after it party central member held a meeting at the beginning of May..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-11
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2004-08-13
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July 11, 2004:
"The students from outside the State schools those entered 10th Standard of High School Level Education exam in March 2004 are confused after the SPDC?s Education Ministry issued a statement which force them to re-exam lower level 9th Standard exam accordingly to the source from teacher..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-11
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2004-08-13
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May 18, 2004:
"Today Mon Leaders make a decision that the National Convention is not genuine one after they have theoretically analyzed on the NC, said the meeting spoke-person Nai Banya Dean..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-18
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June 1, 2004:
"The Burmese government television and communication department has ordered the people to register their TV to have a license and the State authorities are strictly implementing for it in southern Burma.
?The government ordered it last week and it authorities are collecting the number of TV from every home in southern Mon state,” said a TV owner U Hla Khaing..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-01
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2004-08-13
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June 6, 2004:
"The Burma regime?s Custom Department collects ten times tax in comparison with last year from pubs in Mon State this year, in order to raise more revenue for the local authorities, said the pub owners in Mon State..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-06
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2004-08-13
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June 19, 2004:
"The Burmese military government released the leaders of Mon National
Democratic Front with a suspension that they released them in early time and they
would be imprisoned again if they against the regime, said Dr. Min Kyi Win, a
MNDF?s MP who released recently..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-19
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2004-08-13
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July 27, 2004:
"Traffic policemen in Mon State, Southern Burma seriously check the motorbike drivers for fine money since the security has been tight for the National Convention held in Rangoon according to the travelers in the area.
?They check helmet first, if you do not have helmet they fine you. If you have it, they check driving license again, if you do not have it they fine you. Even we have helmet and driving license but they fine us,” said Mr. Nai San Wae a motorbike owner inside Burma..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-07-27
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2004-08-13
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May 23, 2004:
A military government sergeant from Battalion No-106 that based in Mawkanin, Ye township, Mon State, shot death by a soldier after unfair giving supply to low rank soldier according to source close to this battalion said.
Sergeant Aung Kyi Myint shot on yesterday while he is giving military supply to lower rank soldier inside the battalion and he died at the hospital today.
For more information contact to [email protected]
See: www.monnews-imna.com/burmese
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-05-23
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2004-08-13
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August 5, 2004:
"Because of Thanbyuzayat Township polices and Military Intelligence?s serious beating and torture a Mon comedian, Mr. Nai Lam Pyart, from ?Mon Kyae Lai” Mon traditional drama performance group, died after the abuses was committed with a suspicion he was attempting to rape a performance girl, accordingly the source from the drama group.
?Nai Lam Pyart died in Moulmein (Mawlamyine ? named by the regime) hospital after Thanbyuzyat hospital?s medical workers could not treat the injuries and brought him there on July 29,” the source said..."
Sike
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-08-05
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2004-08-13
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June 29, 2004:
"Burmese military government recently measured about 1700 acres land for confiscation in the middle part of Mon State and in southern Mon State Burma for building dam, the local Mon people said.
In southern part of Ye township, the military government measured more than 700 acres land in east part of Ka-lort village near a water fall in 2002 where the government planned to build dam for hydroelectric power and water for cultivation, said Mr. U Shwe Tin a leader of land surveyor this area.
?I am not sure what is the government going to do in this land. But I heard from the government authorities that they will create plantation and farms in lower part of the proposed dam and take water from there,” Mr. Tin added..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-06-29
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June 29, 2004:
"New Mon State party (NMSP) and the SPDC?s Military Intelligence said they continue maintaining cease-ire agreement in the 9th annual ceremony for cease-fire agreement in NMSP office in Moulmein, the capital of Mon State this morning.
NMSP leader opened ceremony at 9 a:m and NMSP leaders read formal message from NMSP President Nai Htin..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
Date of publication:
2004-06-29
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June 29, 2004:
"A strange foreign ship with no passenger arrived in the west beach of Kalar-gote Island in Ye township, southern Burma and the Burmese Army?s navy took it away, according to villagers from island.
?The ship arrived on June 25 Friday and we do not found anyone on board of the ship. It has three stairs and some foods and clothes are on the up-stair floor,” said Mr. Nai Win. The floated ship slow reached in the beach west of the island,” he added..."
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2004-06-29
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17 July 2004:
"People in Burma have little incentive to test their HIV status, said Jamie Uhrig, a former employee of the World Health Organization (WHO) in that country.
A young man from Rangoon agreed that many people in Burma don?t want to have the HIV test because it is expensive and even if they discover they are infected it is difficult to get treatment. He said most people even don?t know that what ARV drugs are. So, if they know they are infected, they would become depressed as there is a lot discrimination against people who are HIV positive..."
Loa Htaw (IMNA)
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2004-07-17
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August 9, 2004, Bangkok:
"Thai-Raman (Thai Mon) communities near Thai capital Bangkok gather to offer Mon foods to the people for five days including showing of Mon Traditions Exhibition stall at Sanam Luang, a public ground in order to honor Royal Thai Queen?s 72th Anniversary Birthday ceremony..."
Chan Mon
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2004-08-09
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June 4, 2004:
"Three Mon political leaders from Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) are released today about noon time from the Mon State?s capital Moulmein jail, confirmed MNDF spokeperson.
Mr. Nai Pan Aung, MNDF spokeperson said, the SPDC authorities and Military Intelligence Officers send three Mon political leaders Nai Ngwe Thein, Dr. Min Soe Lin and Dr. Min Kyi Win back to their homes at noon time..."
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2004-06-04
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August 10, 2004:
"Three Pagoda Pass Township 6th annual football match ceased at semi-final after an argument occurred between the Ramonnya Football Team and Chaung-zone Football Team.
?Because of Three Pagoda Pass Township Peace and Development (TPDC) is afraid of armed conflict occurs between New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) which are behind the two football teams, and so they cease the match without a decided date to re-start again,” according to the match Implementing Committee..."
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2004-08-10
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July 13, 2004:
"Burmese military government, SPDC, authorities in Three Pagoda Pass border town totally banned the funiture and log exports to Thailand, according to a furniture factory owner.
?The authorities already ordered to the logging bussinessmen and funiture factory owners to not export furniture and logs in Thailand since July 9, after an order came from Karen State Peace and Development Council. But they totally banned at mid-day today that they will not allow any furniture and logs to export to Thai side of the border,” said Mr. Nai Htay a funiture trader.."
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2004-07-13
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June 7, 2004:
"Seven people returned home yesterday after six days of serving as porters for Burmese Army?s troops in their military operations in the area along Three-Pagoda-Pass ? Thanbyuzayat motor road, where most ethnic rebel cease fighting against the regime.
?Infantry Battalion No.289 used nine porters from our village to carry their military supply from Chaung-zon to Yetagon village for 6 days,” said Mr. Nai Myaing a villager who know those porters..."
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2004-06-07
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"In Mon State, local military authorities stopped from producing driving license to the people for their corruption after they gave license to illegal motorcycle imported from neighbor countries said Nai Thu Kha a motorcycle trader."
For more information read the attached file in Burmese or contact us
[email protected]
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2004-02-24
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March 1, 2004
Every day, Military Operation Strategy No.3, under the command of government Military Southeast Command forced 50 villagers from four villages in Ye township rotation to work at the Hungan-Hparound road construction.
50 people included women, were forced to work at the 3 and half miles long road, that military planned to construct it with only villagers forced labor.
For more information read the attached file in Burmese.
Contact to [email protected]
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2004-03-01
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"The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and No.5 Intelligence in
Mon State not allowing people to use it new kind of license called Mon State motorbike licenses in the future and they are announcing to the people to change using Mon state license to Mawlamyine City license..."
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2004-03-31
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April 21, 2004:
"Quarter Peace and Development Council in Three Pagoda Town measured land in it quarter and again sell it to people for their pocket money today.
Three Pagoda Town quarter No.3 PDC officer, U Hlaing Myit and a surveyor, U Khin Soe lead, a group of people remeasured the land by passing one by one home and made 40 feet Wide and 60 feet Length measurement for a home..."
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Independent Mon News Agency
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2004-04-21
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April 9, 2004:
"Yesterday, in the township village?s headman workshop and meeting the government authority forced to form Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association.
In two days workshop meeting in Mudon town ship, southern Mon State city, Mawlamyine the authority ordered the village men to form Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association in each village..."
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2004-04-09
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"Free gambling for the coming Thingyan, water festival in Southern Mon State started creating thief cases and robbery after the gambling started.
The coming Thingyan starts on April 12 to 17, and to get money from the gambler by tax, the Burmese government authorities announced to the people that they allow the people for gambling from the beginning of April 1 to April 17..."
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2004-04-05
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April 22, 2004:
"Recently the Burmese Government Municipal of Pegu town, in east of Rangoon, taxation made the poor and old couple feel uncomfortable when the couple repairing their own house.
The municipal collect taxed 20,000 kyat on the couple, Nai Hpood in Socialist quarter, when the couple trying to repair and straight their house that lean long time ago.
The poor couple faced the problems that they cannot pay because they tried to repair their house with a few amount. However, the municipal officer collect taxed on them with many amount of money by order later..."
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2004-04-22
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"Mon rubble [rebels?-OBL], refused to talk for cease fire with the Burmese government in late February, Hongsarwatoi Restoration Party (HRP) under pressured of it competition armed groups.
HRP leader said ?some HRP member were killed by KNU, arrested buy Thai army, and HRP faced heavy military operation from the Burmese army and NMSP.” "
For more information read the attached file in Burmese.
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2004-04-02
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Dear Reader,
In order to buy cars and food expenses, No.3 Tactical Command, under the Southeast Command collected many million kyaw from civilians in Southern part of Ye Township.
Read the news in Burmese.
Regard,
Editor, IMNA
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2004-03-22
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"Mon State City people, almost of the people who house forced to move for the Mawlamyine-Mattaban Bridge construction unsatisfied with the local Burmese government authorities because of so few compensation and unequal compensation paid to the people
Because of the authorities paid different amount of compensation to the owner of 1500 more houses that moved for the longest Bridge in Burma construction, some house owner got amount the compensation only half of the amount of the damage.
But for the people who bribed to the authorities paid more than the amount of the damage when they move their house."
For more information read the attached file in Burmese or contact to [email protected]
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2004-02-26
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"It seems to the international communities that the ruling Burmese military junta is leading to national reconciliation and building for a disciplined democratic country by having cease fire agreement with ethnic nationalitie's armed groups, inviting these groups to participate in the national convention to implement 7 step roadmap proposed by self-appointed Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt. But its real policy is just to bring the ethnic armed groups under the SPDC's control, in order that the junta can maintain the power longer. There is nothing for the people, the junta didn't care about the life of the majority people in the country. It is leading to the destruction for the country's economy because of their own policy and their mismanagement, no economic sanction from the outside did destroy their country..."
Sunthorn Sripanngern (IMNA)
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2004-03-29
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April 29, 2004:
?NLD can join to national convention if all of it?s central executive committee can be held a meeting for it,” Chairperson of Mon National Democratic Front, who meet with NLD central members regularly, said in front of the crowded people at the 8th honoring ceremony for Nai Aung Tun, Mon Affair minister who passed away in Paca village, Thanpyuzayart township..."
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2004-04-29
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Dear Reader,
After 5 days Mon National Conference the representatives called for unity among Mon and establishing of national fund.
Read the news in Burmese.
Regard,
Editor, IMNA
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2004-03-22
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