KALADAN NEWS
Dated- Sunday June22,
2003
A FIGHTING BETWEEN
PRO- NLD AND ANTI- NLD SOLDIERS
Sittwe, June 22: On 12 June, an armed fighting was
occurred between pro-NLD and anti-
NLD soldiers in the
battalion No. 232 in Sittwe, the
capital of Arakan
State, according to our correspondent of
Sittwe.
The fighting was broken out while the SPDC soldiers
were talking among them about the
present political
situation of
said that the present military
Government has pushed
the country into “Least Development
Countries (LDC)” by
unskilled full management since
1988. Therefore, we
don’t even get our salary regularly
and are always
under oppression of higher ranks.
They also said that
the event of May 30 at Depayin towards NLD members was
unjustified. It was a pre-planned
attack to the NLD
supporters by the Government backed
thugs, according
to a military close related to our
correspondent.
Some anti- NLD group said that the NLD party is being
backed by western countries
specially
Aung San Suu Kyi is main figure of NLD, who married a
westerner and passed her most lives
in western
countries. If NLD will get the
power, the country will
become fully westernized. Under
these circumstances,
the SPDC’s
rule will be better than the NLD’s rule,
which is dominated by western
countries, he further
added.
These barging brought them into quarrelling and
quickly changed into armed fighting
between two
groups. Over 100 rounds bullets
were fired during the
half an hour encounter, source
said.
By involving Battalion No.20 and artillery Battalion
of Sittwe, the skirmish was stopped
dead, source
further said.
During the gun fighting, 3 soldiers were seriously
wounded including one Tat Naing and immediately they
were sent to Army Hospital of
Sittwe for medical
treatment, sources said.
Another six pro-NLD soldiers were suspended from their
duty and kept them in the camp, a
source in the
military camp said.
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