------------------------ BurmaNet ------------------------ "Appropriate Information Technologies, Practical Strategies" -------------------------------------------------------------- The BurmaNet News: July 7, 1995 Issue #195 NOTED IN PASSING: As the leaders of the SLORC, we would like to repeat that we do not want to destroy and cause the collapse of the KNPP group. As for me, I would like to urge U Aung Than Lay that to persuade the families who fled into Thailand to comeback to their homeland and to cooperate with the SLORC leaders who are at the border, in peace. Khin Nyunt, see 1,000-3,000 The number of Karenni refugees who have fled the new fighting 2,000 The approximate number of troops fielded by the Karenni 4,000-5,000 The number of SLORC troops "who are at the border, in peace." SLORC: TEXT OF KHIN NYUNTS LETTER TO KARENNI THE NATION : OFFENSIVES CONTINUES AGAINST KARENNI IN FACE OF PEACE MOVE BY SLORC LEADER AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH: ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY IN BURMA THE INDEPENDENT: LETTER FROM JOHN BOORMAN THE NATION:KHIN NYUNT ON MISSION FOR PEACE WITH ETHNIC REBELS SCB: SLORC USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPON CONFIRMED THE NATION: MONK SUSPECTED OF MURDER ARRESTED BY BURMESE POLICE THE NATION: CRACKS SHOW IN SLORC'S PEACE DRIVE BURMAWEB: WWW--EXPANDED AND UPDATED BURMAWEB NLD (YOUTH) (THAILAND): STATEMENT CONCERNING FORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------- o-------------------------------o The BurmaNet News is an | | electronic newspaper | Iti | covering Burma. 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Sutcliffe" World Wide Web: FreeBurma@POBox.com Volunteering: Dr. Christina Fink christin@comnet4.ksc.co.th [Feel free to suggest more areas of coverage] ---------------------------------------------------------- SLORC: TEXT OF KHIN NYUNT'S LETTER TO KARENNI From: Khin Nyunt No/1001/int:/15 General Secretary (1) Date: 1995, July 3rd State Law and Order Restoration Council To: U Aung Than Lay [Prime Minister, KNPP] On behalf of the State government and ethnic armed groups, based on the invitatoin of SLORC, we completed negotiations with the KNPP to abandon armed struggle and join to the legal fold on March 21st, 199. Attempts have been made to reach this condition with the use of mediators and delagates from both sides over several years. Finally we acheived agreements and passed various difficulties. Thus, no one could foresee the easy collapse of the peace we bult. I do not want it to be this way. Similarly, I believe that U Aung Than Lay would be of the same mind as me. The present situation in Kayah State, especially at the border with the entry of the Tatmadaw has caused suspicion and unnecessary events to occur. In fact, the entry of the Tatmadaw columns were not aimed to destory the KPP armed group. The entry of the Tatmadaw was in order to protect the benefits and security of the state. But the local commanders acted without orders from higher authorities in Rangoon. As the leaders of the SLORC, we would like to repeat that we do not want to destroy and cause the collapse of the KNPP group. As for me, I would like to urge U Aung Than Lay that to persuade the families who fled into Thailand to comeback to their homeland and to cooperated with the SLORC leaders who are at the border, in peace. If possible, I am inviting U Aung Than Lay and the other KNPP leaders to make a visit to Loikaw to create peace and development. "Remain with joined hands", I wish for a lasting peace and development. Sincerely, /signed/ Khin Nyunt THE NATION : OFFENSIVES CONTINUES AGAINST KARENNI IN FACE OF PEACE MOVE BY SLORC LEADER The Nation/6.7.95 The Burmese Army yesterday continued its attack on an ethnic Karenni guerrilla base despite a call on Tuesday by a senior Burmese junta leader for the ethnic group to keep the peace. One Burmese soldier was killed and another wounded during the attack yesterday south of Kauk Kauk Hill, which is about 3 kilometers from the Thai border at Mae Hong Son's Khun Yuam district, according to a Karenni National Progressive Party source. There were no KNPP casualties, he said. The source declined to reveal the size of the Karenni force. He did not know the exact strength of the attacking force, but said about 4,000 Burmese troops had crossed the Salween River to the KNPP controlled east bank. Intelligence sources at the border and in Bangkok said the breakdown of the bilateral ceasefire between the Karenni and the ruling Burmese State Law and Order Restoration Council (Slorc) was partly due to the timber business, licenses for which were given out by both sides. Slorc had given a concession to a Singaporean company, the Billion Group, to extract logs from the KNPP areas, while the ethnic group had allowed Thai companies to buy and take out logs from its territory. Slorc in late 1993 imposed a ban on border timber felling and exporting of logs to Thailand. All logs have to be taken to government-authorized saw mills or exported through Rangoon port. A KNPP source said Slorc had earlier given 10 million Kyat (USS equals 6 kyat at the official rate but gets 120-130 on the black market) to the KNPP for development projects in the border area, but Rangoon later informed them the money was in fact for logs that were to be extracted by the Singaporean firm. The source said the area's natural resources belonged to the Karenni people and Rangoon had no right to exploit it. Intelligence sources said SLORC's which to control some of the border areas under the control of the KNPP could be another cause of the clashes, which began last Friday. On Tuesday, Slorc leader Lt Gen Khin Nyunt, who initiated ceasefire negotiations with armed ethnic groups across the country, travelled to eastern Karenni State where he urged the KNPP to maintain the peace. He appealed to the group not to let the peace in the Karenni State be jeopardized and said the fighting was caused by a misunderstanding. The Karenni source said Slorc had tried to improve the situation and urged Christian clergymen, who used to mediate in Slorc-KNPP peace talks, to help intervene to end the fighting. It's just another trick. They are trying to use clergymen to talk with the KNPP again, said the source, Most of the ethnic Burmese population in remote border areas were christianised during the colonial period. The source added that since Slorc had advanced its troops onto the east bank of the Salween River, the KNPP was doing the same thing by moving its forces to attack the Burmese outposts on the west bank. KNPP forces on Tuesday ambushed a convoy of four trucks carrying Burmese reinforcements between Shadaw and Loikaw and destroyed one vehicle. They also attacked two trucks near Demahso. overturning one. AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH: ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY IN BURMA (ALSO CALLED MYANMAR) NOTE: The American Baptist Biennial Meeting in Syracuse on June 27 passed a resolution calling for a boycott of companies doing business in Burma. The following statement was issued at the meeting: 1 At the 1993 Biennial Convention in San Jose, we adopted a Statement of 2 concern on this subject, criticizing the tyranny of the State Law and Order 3 Restoration Council (SLORC), the Burmese Government. The statement included 4 the following: 5 "C. We call upon American companies operating in Burma 6 to explore the ramifications of their present business 7 interests. 8 D. Because Pepsico, Amoco and Textron have admitted their 9 presence in Burma, whose presence has supplied tax 10 monies to SLORC with no benefit to the people, we urge 11 Bapticts to advise ethical investment funds to not 12 invest in those named companies." 13 These calls were consistent with Aung San Suu Kyi's request that foreign 14 investment in Burma be boycotted. Since then, little has changed. Unoc al, 15 Pepsi and Texaco continue to do business in Burma by paying substantial 16 "taxes" to the military SLORC. Burma continues to have one of the world's 17 worst human rights violations, and the SLORC continues to refuse to seat the 18 officials elected in 1990. Although the SLORC has consented to a 19 Constitutional Convention, this has been primarily window-dressing, with only 20 a few chapters written to date, after one year of deliberations. Meanwhile, 21 the SLORC army has overwhelmed one of the Karen strongholds at Manerplaw, 22 forcing an excess of 70,000 refugees to flee to Thailand. Such is not the 23 action of a government seeking justice. 24 Cities in the United States have taken the next step in pressuring the 25 SLORC to mend its ways. For example, on February 28, Berkeley, CA voted 26 to ban all city contracts with companies doing business in Burma, of which 27 Pepsi, Unocal and Texaco continue to be the leaders. 28 Therefore, 29 Recognizing that we have an historic and successful parallel in 30 resisting apartheid in S. Africa, and 31 Recognizing that tyrannical peace in Burma that lacks any justice is a 32 travesty of the Christian gospel, we: 33 A. Again call upon the SLORC to turn over the government of 34 Burma to the rightfully elected opposition leaders; 35 B. Call upon the ABC of the USA, all member Baptist 36 churches, and members of those churches, to refuse to 37 sign business contracts with American companies doing 38 business in Burma, and with specifically Pepsi, Unocal 39 and Texaco; and 40 C. Inform those companies and the public that we are so 41 refusing. //end text// THE INDEPENDENT: LETTER FROM JOHN BOORMAN "Tourism Funds the Tyrants of Burma >From Mr John Boorman >From The Independent, Letters to the Editor, July 6, 1995 Sir: The marriage of convenience between a newspaper's editorial and advertising content is a necessity we accept, but as the industry's own codes of conduct recognise, there are limits. It was disappointing therefore to see that you accepted a full-page advertisement in the "Independent Magazine" (1 July) for tourism in Burma. Your readers who may be tempted should be aware that slave labor has been widely employed to improve roads and facilities, to bring them up to levels expected by Western travellers. They should also know that SLORC, the Burmese military dictatorship, needs their money to buy even more arms in order to continue to wage war on their ethnic minorities, and that the elected leader of Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is entering her seventh year of imprisonment without trial in Rangoon. Yours sincerely, JOHN BOORMAN Annamoe, Co Wicklow 2 July FYI: John Boorman is the Director of "Beyond Rangoon" which will be released in the US on August 18, 1995. THE NATION:KHIN NYUNT ON MISSION FOR PEACE WITH ETHNIC REBELS 5 JULY 1995 Powerful Burmese military intelligence chief Lt Gen Khin Nyunt travelled to eastern Kayah state yesterday to urge an ethnic minority guerrilla group to maintain peace, an army spokesman said. Last week, a three-month-old ceasefire between the guerrilla group, the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), and the Burmese army broke down. Khin Nyunt said the KNPP had opened fire on Burmese soldiers because of a misunderstanding. Two regiment of government troops have been sent into areas of Kayah state bordering Thailand to implement security measures and prevent Thai loggers from taking out timber, the spokesman quoted Khin Nyunt as telling local people in Loikaw, the state capital. Khin Nyunt appealed to the KNPP not to let the peace in Kayah state be jeopardized and he denounced unidentified Western countries he said were trying to "drive a wedge" between the government and the KNPP. A KNPP official said in Bangkok that fighting broke out in least two areas near the Thai border last Friday in what he described as a synchronized Burmese army attack. Clashes continued over the weekend, the official said. Burmese troops had broken an agreement not to press-gang civilians for use as porters and had then moved in force into the KNPP's agreed zone of control, he said. The KNPP is one of 15 guerrilla forces which have reached ceasefire agreements with the military government since 1989. Another Karenni source said yesterday that Burmese troops were pressing towards three Karenni bases in eastern Burma but had taken some casualties following hit-and-run attacks by the ethnic group's guerrilla forces. Sporadic clashes were reported across Karenni-designated areas of Kayah, the KNPP source said, adding that heavy fighting had been reported near the group's base at Hta Na Khwe. Between 4,000 and 5,000 Burmese troops from 18 battalions including some sent down from Shan state were involved in the operation, the source said by telephone from the Thai border town of Mae Hong Son. The source said that up to 30 Burmese troops were believed to have been killed by Karenni guerrillas, but added that the reports had not been confirmed and that casualties sustained by the ethnic group were not available. The KNPP had about 2,000 men under arms, the source said. The source said Rangoon had informed the KNPP that the operation was to stop Burmese timber from being stolen and taken across the border to Thailand. The Karenni have rejected that explanation, saying that Rangoon was aiming to capture bases along the border with Thailand at Hta Na Khwe and Nam Oon in the northeast of Kayah, and Kauk Kauk in the southeast. A base at Mae Surin in the southeast of the state earlier believed to be a target had already been by-passed, the source said. The source said that some 1,500 people had crossed the border into Thailand ahead of the Burmese advance. The KNPP reports, which could not be independently verified, came after Rangoon signed a treaty with Mon ethnic rebels on Thursday and announced that only one insurgency the Karen National Union remained in Burma. (TN) SCB: SLORC USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPON CONFIRMED tun soc.culture.burma 11:06 AM Jul 6, 1995 (at macpsy.ucsf.EDU) From: tun@macpsy.ucsf.EDU (Coban Tun) Subject: SLORC use of chemical weapon confirmed Some of you might know this already. I've met with Edith Mirente, author of Burmese Looking Glass, while she was in San Francisco during the 4th of July weekend. Result on a piece of clothing came back from the lab confirming that Slimy Lunatics of Oppression and Repression Council (SLORC) used pesticide in higly concentrated form was used to drive of KNU from Kamowra (Wang Kha) back in Feb. Louisa Benson-Craig have more information. Ct THE NATION: MONK SUSPECTED OF MURDER ARRESTED BY BURMESE POLICE 5 JULY 1995 A Burmese monk accused of killing an elderly woman and stabbing three people in Thailand has been arrested by Burmese police, a senior policeman said yesterday. The arrest came about as one of the victims informed his Burmese relative, a police captain in Burma, about the incident and he made the arrest, said Pol Lt Col Namchai Chotiprayoon, investigation inspector at the Bang Khen police station. The monk, identified as Yu Manita, 30, was accused of drugging and then stabbing to death Sawart Sri-amnuay, 64, and injuring her pregnant daughter and two Burmese men, last Tuesday, at their house in Bang Khen district. He also allegedly stole valuables worth hundreds of thousands of baht. The monk later fled to Burma. Pol Lt Col Namchai expressed concern that the suspect might not be returned to face charges "because Thailand has no extradition threaty with Burma". He said police would urge the Foreign Ministry to seek the suspect's extradition. "But I don't think Burma will extradite him. We will have to wait and see if they ask for any evidence from us to change the monk themselves," he said. The suspect was arrested in Rangoon, a police source said. In an initial investigation in Burma, the monk said that after finding out Sawart had sold a plot of land for about Bt3 million, he planned to steal the money, the source said. After arriving at the house, supposedly to perform a religious rite to ward off evil spirits, he drugged the six victims. Sawart, though, woke and cried for help, prompting him to kill her, the monk was quoted as telling Burmese police. (TN) THE NATION: CRACKS SHOW IN SLORC'S PEACE DRIVE July 5 Only one day after the Burmese junta struck a ceasefire agreement with ethnic Mon guerrillas last Thursday, its truce with another armed ethnic group, the Karenni National Progressive Party, broke down and both sides have since been locked in fighting that has uprooted roughly another 1,500 people their homes. Although the actual causes of the new fighting have yet to be ascertained, the clashes confirm the well_founded fear that the ceasefires that Rangoon has struck with the different ethnic groups remain very fragile and temporary. They do not guarantee lasting peace in the border areas, where those groups retain their arms and strength. Though the KNPP was the last party, just before the Mon ethnic brothers_in arms, to reach a truce deal with the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council [slorc] and the first to resume hostilities, other ethnic guerrilla groups, such as the powerful Wa forces in northern Shan State, have often threatened to tear up their bilateral peace pacts with Rangoon and return to armed struggle. The United Wa State Party [UWSP], which was one of the first parties to sign a ceasefire agreement with the Slorc in early 1989, has not been happy with the Slorc's increasing demands for it to withdraw its troops from several areas within its territory and to reduce its armed strength and weaponry. Unlike the strong Kachin Independence Organization in Burma's northern_most Kachin State which often resorts to negotiations with the Slorc to settle similar disputes, the Wa, with its 25,000_30,000 troops including militia forces, has never held back from publicly airing its dissatisfaction about the situation and had repeatedly threatened to go back to fighting to maintain the status quo in both land and power. Last October, the Wa spearheaded the formation of the Peace and Democratic Front, a new alliance of eight armed ethnic groups which have reached ceasefires with Rangoon, as part of an effort to protect ethnic rights and autonomy. The new group sprang up only a month after Slorc leader Lt Gen Khin Nyunt announced that the whole Shan State was now free of ethnic insurgency. In the south, representatives of the New Mon State Party [NMSP] still decline to reveal the details of their discussions and truce deal with the Slorc. The Mon delegation, which returned to its border base from Moulmein where the highly publicized ceasefire ceremony was held on June 29, will hold a central committee meeting before issuing a public statement on its ceasefire with the Slorc. MON BREAKTHROUGH After failing in four previous rounds of talks to find agreement over the preconditions for a ceasefire, and in particular the delimitation of NMSP territory, the Mons and Slorc finally reached a settlement in early June. Well_informed Thai and Mon sources in Bangkok and Kanchanaburi attributed the resumption of the May 30 _ June 10 talks after an 11_month pause to the peace efforts of two elected Mon MPs from Moulmein, who have assisted the group in negotiating with the Slorc. The two MPs had made two trips as semi_mediators to the border for meetings with senior NMSP leaders and proposed to help both sides break the long full i not to establish any physical boundary between the areas controlled by them and that civilians and villagers could travel freely to either side without hindrance from the two parties. however,, armed forces would have to first inform and seek permissif local villagers and forced conscription of civilians as porters. While it is not known if both sides have reached any agreement on the future of about 11,000 Mon refugees upprovided by private relief agencies operating in Thailand_ the plan to relocate Pa Yaw and Halockhani, two of the four existing camps will go ahead, probably in the next few months after the rainy season. REFUGEES CONCERNS The ceasefire agreement is only a half_way solution and is different from a comprehensive peace deal or settlement. The ceasefire does not mean that peace already prevails in Burma, said a relief worker in a recent interview. The worasefire is stuck. In an interview yesterday, a member of the Mon Refugee Committee said he did not know whether and to what extent the refugee assistance and development projects were covered and ry nature can beled to last the monsoon period when road seen from the eruption of fighting between the Burmese army and the Karenni National Progressive Party [KNPP], which became the 14th group to reach a bilateral truce with 6_point agreement which stipulated no acts of aggression in each other's territories. The KNPP refusal prompted the Burmese army to send about 4,000 men across the Salween River to the east bank where both sides have sine last Fridamese students taking refugee in the area, it does prove and confirm a fundamental fear of Slorc aggression and its unrelenting policy and tendency to use force to suppress opposition or dislorc peace accord with interest and concern as the two ethnic groups have been active in several over_lapping territories in southern Burma and the truce could indirectly affect KNU operations in those areas. A senior KNU officer said a KNU unilaterady broken down because the Slorc had not positively responded to the initiative. On the contrary, the Slorc had sent more troops to attack and capture more Karen bases along the Thai_Burmese border. Thus KNU leader Gen Bo Mya officially revoke the trucge number of people from three villages to flee into the jungle. While he predicted a resumption of a heavy Burmese military offensive against the KNU now that a Mon_Slorc truce has been group militarily and politically to cut its bargaining position and negotiation conditions, and try to strike the most concessions from any deal. The observers believe that the KNU,though weakened after the fall of its headquarters and several camps. BURMAWEB: WWW--Expanded and Updated BurmaWeb Burma Support Gr reg.burma 6:54 AM Jul 5, 1995 From: "BurmaSupportGroup " WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? Since April 1995, BurmaWeb has updated links and expanded to include: + The most comprehensive index on WWW for Burma info + Incorporating most other websites + Alphabetical and country address lists + Aung San Suu Kyi Month Events, Info & Ideas + "BurmaNet News" from 1994 + Articles on various topics from different groups ...and many publications! 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Things BurmaWeb is especially in need of: Accurate addresses, corrections and group biographies Current events information Activities in your area Articles or info relevant to any of the topics Hints and suggestions about layout, content, indexing, and so on... Maps and Photographs New Websites involving Burma Thank you for your continued support! WEB TEAM Burma Support Group _________________________________ Email: tormodl@ulrik.uio.no WWW: http://www.uio.no/~tormodl NLD (YOUTH) (THAILAND): STATEMENT CONCERNING FORMATION Date 7 July, 1995 We those who are youth and students have bed the pro-democracy movements with the simply noble spirit on the right historic route since the military dictators stated the creation of the one party system in Burma. Having sacrificed our sweat, blood and lives in the 1988 nation wide democracy up risinng, we have been fighting against militarism without self-interest. On to the democracy fighting way that was led by youth and students, abiding their lives, the entire people of have fulling cooperated in political activities. The military dictators foresaw these situations with horror and seized me state power on 18 September, 1988. NLD was formed and based on students, despairing youth and ethnic nationalities under the circumstances Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the general secretary of NLD, formed The National League for Democracy (Youth) and December 1988. It has resisted in various ways in the cooperation with the anti-dictatorial organizations fighting in internal Burma and revolutions areas. After arresting our leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on July 20, 1989, the NLD (youth) has continued its struggle for democracy. The leader of the NLD (Youth) were also arrested and some leaders had to flee to revolutions areas and abroad. The NLD (Youth) internal Burma almost disappears gradually under several oppression and severe torture by the brutal regime. Nation League for Democracy was also under immovable situations owing to illegal act unlawfully and forcibly adopted by military junta. To implement its struggle , the NLD leaders and members had therefore came to Manepolaw and established the NLD (LA) to carry out the responsibility of democracy movements . The NLD (LA) has been fighting against the SLORC, hanging together with ethnic revolutionary and democratic forces. Being unable to take part in political activities for democracy, due to arrests, torture and inhuman treatment, the NLD (Youth) who are in abroad now , have reunited again to continue the struggle, according to policy adopted and led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi that we have absolutely accepted We release our attitude as the main policy of the NLD. -to be sincerely honest with mutual respectation -to compromise national reconciliation -to practise non-violent methods -to bring on amalgamating without grudge We firmly vow that we will collaborate with democratic forces and ethnic revolution group, which have been fighting against the military dictatorship without self-interest, and we will oppose the actions of those who take opportunity for themselves under the name of democracy revolution .We make known clearly this statement concerning formation for NLD (Youth) on 7 July 1995 of the historic 33 anniversary day. Leading Committee National League for Democracy (Youth) Thailand