NEWS - Junta Fortifying the Salween

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Subject: NEWS - Junta Fortifying the Salween Dam Site

4 October 1999 - RE-BROADCAST

No: 10 - 6

Junta Fortifying the Salween Dam Site
According to sources close to the Shan States Army of Yawdserk, the
Burma 
Army has been, for the past two months, building up their positions
along 
the Salween River near the site which had undergone a five-month long 
feasibility study until the end of March.

Saengjuen Sarawin, S.H.A.N.'s principal reporter, who recently returned 
from his visit to the SSA Base, reports: "Units from 4 Infantry
Battalions, 
330, 332, 518 and 520, numbering 4-500, came from Mongpan (on the
western 
bank) to keep vigilance on both sides of the river from Ta-sangé to
Tasang".

Tasang is the ferry crossing between Mongpan Township on the western
bank 
and Mongton Township on the eastern. A few kilometers north is the 
projected dam site where feasibility studies took place in late October 
last year by a Thai company.

In addition, there are 8 motorboats that patrols along the river, said
the 
sources. "The aim looks to be two-fold", said one. "First, to prevent
the 
Shan fighters from crossing back and forth along that stretch, and,
second, 
to insure security for the dam site".

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