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(1)
(2) WANTED REBEL POSTERS ON
(3)
(4) 12- Top level Nasaka
Officer including the Nasaka Driector
Arrested
(In Burmese)
(5)
(In Burmese)
(6) Fifty three Journalists killed last year (In
Burmese)
(7) Mon Music Year’s 2005 (In Burmese)
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Narinjara News
The number killed in
risen to 96, stated a press release
of the Arakan National Council, ANC,
on January 7.
According to the press release, 12 fishermen in Akyab, 80 people from
GwaTownship, and 4 from
natural disaster.
30 people are still reported missing and 3 villages in
severely damaged, said the report.
The report stated that ANC collected it's
information through telephone
interviews with residents in Arakan state.
ANC also believes that there are most likely more people
dead in Arakan
State since it is fishing season in all of the state's
coastal villages
and towns that are along the
ANC is a newly formed organization of Arakan
groups and it has a number
of branch offices in
neighboring countries of
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WANTED REBEL POSTERS
ON
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(Kaowao, Nai
Ong
Posters, that announced Burma Army
will pay up to 10 million Kyats for
information leading to the capture
of Mon guerrilla leader, are on sale
in northern Ye Byu
Township.
Nai Thaw, a Mon community leader
from the area said the Burma Army
ordered every family to buy the
posters of wanted Mon guerilla leaders,
each worth 700 Kyats (Burmese
currency).
“The villagers must obey the order and every household must
buy 3
posters of their (Burma Army)
wanted men and post them in home or risk
being tortured,” said Nai Thaw.
The poster stated that anyone who can provide information
leading to the
guerrilla leader Nai Bin’s whereabouts or who can bring him in will be
awarded with the money.
Second leader Nai Hloin and
other leaders, Nai
Chan Dein and Nai
Sook Gloing each have one
million put on their heads.
Following this order, local villagers are caught in the
middle because
the guerrilla group has also
threatened them not to follow the
Army’s instructions. The
threat from both sides has forced them to flee
the area gradually.
Some have fled to a Mon resettlement site as internally
displaced person
(IDP) and some sneaked to
Development Committee, based in Sangkhalaburi,
Thai Burma border. A
village headman said some villagers
have also moved to a religious site
in northern Ye township where (they
believe) a famous Buddhist monk can
give them protection.
According to a source from the area, about 50 Mon guerillas
who had
survived a heavy military offensive
by Aung Moe Gyo Operation No. (3)
surrendered to the New Mon State
Party. There is a rumor that Nai
Hloin, the second leader of the
group who was wounded wants to surrender
to the NMSP, but his younger
brother, Nai Bin has threatened to kill him
if he does.
The Burma Army has launched an offensive to wipe out the Mon
armed group
and the insurgents in turn use
ambush tactics and guerrilla warfare.
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Narinjara News
attend an international gas
pipeline conference Jan. 12-13 in
decide on whether a gas pipeline
will be built through
According to a report, the meeting will be attended by the
Indian
Petroleum Minister, Burmese officials and Hossain, after
accepted a formal invitation from
government has not yet decided
which route the gas pipeline will use to
export the gas to
The aim of the talks is to convince the
benefits of the pipeline. The
construction of the gas pipeline will
commence at the end of this year
once the
to allow the pipeline to run
through it's territory.
pipeline transports. US$100
million will come from a wheeling charge
and US$25 million as maintenance
charges.
In addition,
and an investment of US$150 million
will also create employment
opportunities for Bangladeshi
workers.
The afore-mentioned facts are likely to convince the
government to give its final
approval for the gas pipeline to be
constructed through its territory,
the source said.
The pipeline will cross the
the Indian state of Tripura, and cross into west
Rajshahi border.
In
runs from Akyab,
the Arakan state capital, to tTripura
state of
The minister will fly to
including the chairman of Petrobangla, a prominent petroleum firm in
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