Subject: BurmaNet News March 30, 1997 (2) ------------------------ BurmaNet ------------------------ "Appropriate Information Technologies, Practical Strategies" ---------------------------------------------------------- The BurmaNet News: March 30, 1997 Issue #680 (SPECIAL ISSUE: UPDATE ON KAREN SITUATION) HEADLINES: ========== BURMANET: UPDATE ON KAREN SITUATION AFP: BURMA'S SUCCESSES BRING ETHNIC CIVIL WAR TO THAI BORDER THAILAND TIMES: THE LAST BASTION FALLS TO SLORC ONSLAUGHT BKK POST: REFUGEES SAY THEY WON'T GO BACK AFP: KAREN REFUGEES ESCAPE BURMA THAILAND TIMES: CHOLERA KILLS ONE CHILD IN KAREN KSNG: LETTER FROM A KAREN STUDENT ON THE BORDER KNU PRESS RELEASE NO. 9/97 THAILAND TIMES: OVER 1,000 KAREN REFUGEES RETURN TO BURMA NLM: SECRETARY-2 MET STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF AZIN ANNOUNCEMENT: PICTURES OF REFUGEES AND BURNED CAMPS -------------------------------------------------------------------- BURMANET: UPDATE ON KAREN SITUATION March 30, 1997 The situation along the Thai-Burma border continues to be unstable, with Thai authorities in some camps attempting to intimidate refugees into going back to Burma while new refugees are still pouring over the border wherever they can. As articles in this issue indicate, sickness in the camps is becoming a serious problem, partly because NGOs have had difficulty obtaining access and providing sanitation in some of the camps. Moreover, in some camps, the Thai authorities have refused to allow the refugees to build raised huts and they are still living on the ground under tarps. At the same time, camp leaders and KNU officials have been ordered to sign letters saying that the Karen will voluntarily repatriate. In one instance earlier this month, a Thai businessman and former unofficial advisor to the National Security Council, participated in a meeting in which a KNU official was ordered to sign a letter saying that the male refugees who were sent back across the border into an active fighting did so willingly. Shortly afterward, this Thai businessman turned up in Washington D.C. where he held a meeting with representatives of NGOs working with groups in Thailand. At this meeting, he insisted that the refugees had gone back voluntarily, the SLORC had promised to treat the refugees well, and certain key KNU leaders should not be involved in any future negotiation process. The SLORC is attempting to get the leaders of the KNU's 4th Brigade (through which will pass both the pipeline and the planned road to Tavoy) to sign a separate ceasefire. The Thai and Burmese governments want to eliminate the refugees along the Kanchanaburi-Sangklaburi border (opposite the KNU's 4th Brigade) for two reasons. First, the mere presence of refugee camps indicates that there is a serious problem which has not been resolved. Companies are more reluctant to invest in an area which is so obviously messy. Second, the refugee camps could provide support for Karen guerrillas operating in 4th Brigade, threatening the pipeline and road projects. Further north, in the KNU's Sixth Brigade area (opposite Tak Province), some Karen refugees who originally went to Nupho refugee camp have gone back. For some, they cannot bear living in such crowded conditions in a camp of 15,000 people with no prospects of income generation and the belief that sooner or later they will be repatriated anyway. At the same time, the SLORC has been holding members of families and villages hostage and sending representatives to Nupho refugee camp to bring others back. Many have been threatened. If they do not bring others back, those being kept behind will be killed. The Thailand Times article states that over 1000 refugees who are related to soldiers from the KNU's Sixteenth Battalion in Sixth Brigade have gone back to Burma. The SLORC has announced that the former 16th Battalion Commander, Lt-Col Tameuhae will be appointed as a member of the National Convention. He will also be made the head of Karen State. Tameuhae had been unhappy with KNU leaders for personal reasons. When he led his troops toward the SLORC troops during the recent offensive, they thought they were going to fight. Actually he was going to surrender. Several column commanders became suspicious along the way and brought their troops back to the KNU. The SLORC has not used the DKBA in the recent offensive, and there have been reports that the SLORC has executed some of the senior DKBA leaders, because the SLORC is having difficulty controlling them. It will be interesting to see if Tameuhae is appointed the head of the DKBA or if the SLORC will dismantle the DKBA and create a new organization. And will Tameuhae be any different? KNU members who knew him said that even though he had problems with some KNU members, he hated the SLORC. **************************************************************** AFP: BURMA'S SUCCESSES BRING ETHNIC CIVIL WAR TO THAI BORDER March 30, 1997 BANGKOK, March 30 (AFP) - Burma's military government appears to have gained the upper hand in its 49-year civil war with ethnic minorities, but fighting continues along most of the Thai border, official and ethnic sources say. As thousands of soldiers marched to celebrate Armed Forces Day amid tight security and communal unrest in the capital last week, thousands of ethnic Karen refugees streamed across the border into Thailand's Ratchaburi province. Rangoon has taken control of long stretches of the Thai border in the past two years for the first time since Burma gained independence in 1948, most recently in an ongoing sweep through the last Karen strongholds. The junta has signed ceasefire agreements with 15 armed ethnic groups, allowing them to retain their arms and engage in certain business enterprises. Clashes occur regularly, however, in four of the five Burmese states and divisions, as they are called, along the the mostly undemarcated 2400-kilometer (1450-mile) Thai border, according to ethnic sources on the border. A spokesman for the military's ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in Rangoon confirmed most of the reports, but said they were only "skirmishes." The Karen National Union (KNU), the Shan United Revolutionary Army (SURA) and the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) have been chased out of most of their bases, but guerrilla warfare continues, the border sources said. Most ethnic groups say they seek greater autonomy in a federal and democratic Burma, but the SLORC says the military must have a major role in a future centralized government to prevent the disintegration of the country. The junta's military successes, however, come as UN and other groups report soaring heroin production in areas controlled by ceasefire groups, serious economic problems, malnutrition in the slums, and massive human rights abuses. Armed Forces Day celebrations, meanwhile, were marred by communal unrest many analysts say is an expression of discontent with the junta among the 400,000-strong Buddhist monkhood. Rajsmoor Lallah, a UN rapporteur, said in a report released in March that Burma's military had forcibly relocated and essentially detained or forced into labor more than one million people without compensation. Most were cleared out to make way for development projects or evicted in the course of ongoing military campaigns against ethnic groups -- said to rely on torture, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention as porters, the burning and looting of villages and rape. Shan refugees were uncountable, border sources said, as most of them joined the several hundred thousand Burmese nationals working illegally in Thailand, while only about 100,000 Karen and Karenni were registered in the camps. Despite the surrender of opium druglord Khun Sa a year ago, remnants of his Mong Tai Army (MTA) in Shan State have refused to lay down arms. At least one group of remnants has an unofficial ceasefire with Rangoon, while another Shan group has an official agreement, but former MTA under the SURA were in active opposition. "The SURA is still fighting almost every day," a Shan source said. A military source in Rangoon told AFP that skirmishes may have taken place in Shan State with MTA remnants as government troops patroled the area. He also confirmed that "skirmishes have taken place with the KNU during mopping up operations in those areas." KNU officials, however, vowed to re-establish bases lost in Karen State and Tenasserim Division in the coming rainy season, while reporting dozens of government casualties and the routing of remote military outposts. The smaller KNPP, which signed a ceasefire in 1995 that fell apart within a few months, and was driven out of its bases last year in a campaign that uprooted most of the villages in Kayah (Karenni) State, also reported continuing irregular clashes. Thailand has said that if the fighting in Burma subsides, the refugees in the camps will be repatriated. "Well, it looks like (the fighting) is not going to die down," a Karenni source said. The official source in Rangoon, however, said the KNPP could only launch its attacks from Thailand. "Clashes take place occasionally when they cross over into Myanmar territory to attack villages in the area," he said, using the SLORC's official name for Burma. But observers said Thailand has so far appeared more anxious to clear out refugees in its Ratchaburi and Kanchanaburi provinces, south of the Karenni areas, where several joint infrastructure projects are planned with the junta. ***************************************** THAILAND TIMES: THE LAST BASTION FALLS TO SLORC ONSLAUGHT March 30, 1997 And so, one of the world's longest civil insurgencies waged since the end of World War II, seems to be nearing its end. The sound of guns and the smell of cordite in and around the Burmese-Thai border area will soon diminish and be absorbed into the environment. The scores of thousands of Burmese youth, who laid down their lives for the glory of a nation of their own, one may feel did so in vain. Inevitably, curtains will be soon be drawn over the tragic drama of disillusioned and disorganized Karen National Union (KNU) resistance fighters. The "Last Post" may not have been sounded yet, but the eventual out come is a foregone conclusion. The last of the liberation forces that challenged SLORC rule will be stilled, and the flood of people demanding freedom, ethnic identity and democracy will have been scuttled. The KNU situation may have been a strategic military victory for the State Law and Order Restoration Council (Slorc) in Rangoon, it may have also given some generals political chips on their shoulders, but democratically and morally it exposes how totally bankrupt the regime is morally. Slorc may now have the upper hand over ethnic insurgents, but the fact remains, it has been the primary cause of human misery, has made hundreds of thousands of ethnic Burmese homeless and has persecuted refugees in bordering countries, especially, in Thailand. The attacking and setting alight of refugee camps near the border of the two countries, and the recent controversial refusal to accept both young and old males by the Thai authorities, only confirms the belief which has stood throughout the ages; that wealth and monetary factors in most instances, if not habitually, take precedence over human suffering and over what is morally and democratically right. Worse still, when it is done by an unelected regime which refuses to hand over power to the elected people's representatives, forcibly doing what it does with the point of a gun. The tendency to create wealth amongst individuals, merchants and even government is as natural as we depend on rain for water. But there are some among the trio who are blind to rational factors and human priorities in the process chosen to reach the desired goals. The controversial Singapore Elder Satesman and Senior Minister without Portfolio Lee Kuan yu was one of the first leaders from Southeast Asia to have voiced that a stable government with a prevailing administrative structure is preferable to a divided democracy with no proper bureaucracy for economic development> In other words he meant a known devil is better than an unknown angel. The situation in Burma, also illustrates how neighbors could also be guided or rather misguided by the wealth creating process that considers everything else including moral behavior as secondary. It is a classic example of how individual and national vested interests take priority over human woes and moral considerations. On the one hand democracy is oppressed by the military junta. Democratic structures have been weakened to an extent that they eventually were destroyed and collapsed by themselves. Slorc has made no secret of its intentions. Not surprisingly, it not only delayed but later reneged and dishonored its pledge to the people to transfer power to the elected representatives in 1988 when the opposition won by a landslide. In other words. Slorc leaders created the conditions that forced Burmese people belonging to several ethnic nationalities and movements to try to restore democracy, to rebel and rise up against its designs and decisions. Seemingly, to justify the need to create the so-called State Law and Order Restoration Council and thereby take control of government itself. The Burmese junta may have been somewhat encouraged when not one country in the region objected or reprimanded it for its illegal behavior. Most surprisingly, ASEAN members stood arms folded and watched the military dictatorship systemically destroy all opposition to its regime. It not only destroyed and jailed several thousands people who were calling for democracy and freedom, but took a further step to eliminate ethnic insurgency in the country. With democracy itself suppressed in Burma, Slorc turned its guns on the separatist groups that have been waging a never ending war for over half a century. With political manipulation, intrigue and stealthy diplomacy, the military junta have subdued all pockets of opposition to its regime, with the full knowledge of neighboring countries and the world community. Ironically, Southeast Asian nations, especially Indonesia and Singapore have led the way in creating the conditions for others to follow and give much needed legitinacy to the Slorc regime. Investment, economic development and Business partnerships have taken place with the military clique" as partner. Furthermore, the trend was substantiated by the, apparent competition between British, American and other European private sectors to invest, in spite of legislation in the United States to prevent this. The moral vacuum and hypocritical rhetoric on human rights against Burma in the world community, as well as against members of ASEAN, with a threat to withdraw prevailing special trade preferences have triggered a race in ASEAN itself to invest in Burma under the Slorc rule. Thus, it seems ASEAN had only waited on the fringes until the Slorc dictatorship took full control of the whole country. It is not hypothetical to assume that the eradication of the ethnic menace may well have been a prerequisite for ASEAN membership. To that extent Slorc has had cooperation and good will from Asean members countries. As July gets nearer, the last bastion has fallen and been taken over by the Rangoon army. Burma's place in Asean is now assured and it seems as though it is business as usual. ************************************************************** BKK POST: REFUGEES SAY THEY WON'T GO BACK March 29, 1997 AP In an open letter to a Thai army officer who has been pressuring them to go back to Burma, Karen refugees said yesterday they will face terrible abuses from the Burmese army if they are sent home. The 2,700 refugees at Pu Muang camp in Kanchanaburi near the Thai-Burma border said Colonel Manat of the Thai Army's 9th Division subjected them to a three hour lecture today on the merits of returning to Burma and pressured them to agree to go back immediately. "We cannot lay our trust upon any promise given by (the Burmese) regarding safety," the refugees said in the letter. They said the fighting in their homeland had not yet ended and cited the Burmese military's record of raping, killing, torturing and using ethnic minorities for forced labour and as human mine sweepers. Aid workers said the officer threatened to send the refugees back against their will. The Karen and other refugees at Pu Muang are part of an estimated 1 5,000 people who fled a massive Burmese military offensive aimed at wiping out Karen resistance to the government in Rangoon. Aid workers said this week that 1,700 of those at Pu Muang are ill, suffering from diarrhea, malaria and other maladies. The Thai army has refused the UN High Commissioner for Refugees access to the camp. The Karen have been fighting for autonomy since 1949, and Thailand supported them as a buffer between themselves and the Burmese anti recently. But the government of General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has with drawn support for the Karen in a bid to bolster business ties with Burma's military regime and profit form border trade formerly controlled by the Karen. Thailand has been criticised by the United Nations, Western governments and human rights groups for forcibly repatriating hundreds and possibly thousands of refugees into the war zone. Prime Minister Chavalit and his generals have denied forcing anyone back, but the refugees, Thai village militia and some Thai soldiers told AP that refugees had been repatriated against their will. In addition, Thai police have raided the officers of Burmese student exiles in Bangkok, allegedly stealing computer equipment, demanding payoffs and sent dissidents back to Burma. Thai government and miliary officials have repeatedly denied that Karen civilians have been repatriated, forcibly or otherwise, or that fighting age men have been forced back. ******************************************************** AFP: KAREN REFUGEES ESCAPE BURMA March 28, 1997 BANGKOK, March 28 (AFP) - A stream of ethnic Karen refugees fled Burma into Thailand Friday when advancing forces of the junta were reported to be only one hour's marchaway, witnesses said. The refugees escaped the Karen village of Meh Pya Kee inside Burma early Friday and crossed into Suan Phung district of Thailand's Ratchaburi province, where they were sheltering about eight kilometres (five miles) from the frontier. A 76-year old man who had left his home at Amoe in territory formerly held by the rebel Karen National Union, said he had been walking for three weeks to escape the Burmese government offensive, a witness said. Witnesses estimated there were 2,000 refugees, mostly women, children and elderly. The Thai military said that according to latest reports, between 2,000 and 3,000 Karen refugees had gathered at the border but had not yet crossed into Thailand. Forces of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) were only one hour away when the villagers left Meh Pya Kee at 9:00 a.m., the elderly Karen man reported. Some of the refugees were reported to be suffering from malaria and diarrhoea. Many of the children were coughing, witnesses said. *************************************************** THAILAND TIMES: CHOLERA KILLS ONE CHILD IN KAREN REFUGEE CAMP IN TAK March 28, 1997 by Assawin Pinitwong TAK: An outbreak of cholera in a refugee camp has killed at least one child and left hundreds of refugees suffering from diarrhea, relief workers said. Beatrice Dumont, 30, an American volunteer doctor at Nupho refugee camp in Umphung district here sheltering Karen refugees form Burma, yesterday said at least 36 refugees in the camp were stricken with cholera during the past week. The victims have been hospitalized at a mobile medical unit in the camp. The doctor said more than 100 refugees each day have been coming to her seeking treatment for diarrhea. Yun Thin, 28, the village chief of Zhone Kyaw Kyi said an acute water shortage forced many refugees to use water from a creek. Since the outbreak, refugees have been ordered to allocate a place every house to serve as a toilet in an effort to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Despite the rapid spread of the disease, the doctor said the outbreak could be curbed. There is only one doctor and one nurse at the camp's mobile medical unit. However, the doctor said she had trained some refugees in the camp in order that they could educate other refugees as to how to prevent the disease. Nupho camp houses about 15,000 Karen refugees fleeing clashes between Burmese government troops and the anti-Rangoon Karen National Union (KNU). At present it is divided into five zones with part of it under construction. ***************************************************************** KSNG: LETTER FROM A KAREN STUDENT ON THE BORDER March 29, 1997 From: KYO-USA The following is a translation of a letter that was received by the KYO-USA from a Karen student from the border. In the furture we will post slected letters from Karen students as Karen Studen Network Group (KSNG Journal). KSNG Journal 3/97-1 The SLORC and Thai army are working hand in hand in order to eliminate all the Karen people along the border. The Thai army has been releasing report in which it says that there are no more fighting at the border and the refugees are being forced to enter into Thailand by the Karen troops. This is a political maneuvering and misinformation being disseminated to the international communities by the Thai army. Even though the report stated that there is no fighting at the border, heavy skirmishes between SLORC and Karen troops occurred at least twice on March 22 and 23, 1997, while the Thai Ninth Army Division Commander and his operational commanders were meeting with their Burmese counterparts at Min Htaing Kee village. The Thai army officials themselves are the witnesses to the ongoing fighting at the border. Presently, there are about 3,500 to 4,000 refugees who are grouping themselves at Huay Su, coming from Htaw Ma Pyo, Htaw Ma Maw and Kae Ma Kee villages. Although the Thai 9th army Division is promising international communities to help the Karen refugees, they themselves have helped transferring rice sacks that were donated by BBC for the Karen refugees to the Burmese army at Baw Ya Ka on March 20, 1997. Regardless of its repeated promise to help accommodate Karen refugees on humanitarian ground, the Thai 9th army Division is fully cooperating with the SLORC in annihilating the Karen people. Witnesses reported that some illing refugees who attempted to go to local hospital for medication were blocked by the Thai border patrol police at the check point. SLORC is conducting its massive offensive against Karen civilians in order to promote its business ties with companies such as Italian-Thai Development Public Company Ltd. and PTT of Thailand. As a result of this offensives, tens of thousand of innocent villagers became homeless and had to flee from their villages and become refugees in Thailand. Many female villagers are being raped and some of them are tortured to death by the Burmese army. Please help us appeal to the international communities, the Thai people and the United Nations to help us on humanitarian ground, and to pressure the Thai government not to repatriate us unless safety is guaranteed. ************************************************************* KNU PRESS RELEASE NO. 9/97 REGARDING THE 1997 SLORC OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE KNU March 25,1997 Human Rights violations have increased drastically against the Karen in the northern Papun District. These violations include random arrests, forced portering, torture, rape, looting and destruction of property, and an alarming rise in arbitrary killings. On 13.3.97, Slorc LIB 59 shot and killed two villagers, Saw Kaw Hay Mu (age 70) and his son, Saw Per Kaw (age 32) from Da Baw Kaw Der village. On 14.3.97, Slorc LIB 341 arbitrarily shot and killed a villager at Pler Leh Der village (Age and name unavailable) On 15.3.97, Slorc LIB 341 entered Klo Tho Hta village and killed three villagers. Saw May Ha (age 48) from klo Tho Hta, Saw Bo Lweh (age 42) visiting from Thay Keh Mu Der village, and Saw Pah Klay Day (age 40) visiting from Hsa Law Pu village. They also arrested Saw Po Nya Kay (age 43) and forced him to leave with them. On 16.3.97, Slorc LIB 341 shot and killed Po Htaw Ku Tha (age 30) from Lay Pu Der village. Slorc LIB 53 and LIB 439 attacked See Day village and burned down five (5) houses in the northen part of the village. On 17.3.97, Slorc LIB 341 arrested Maung Pan Shwe from Lay Pu Der village and forced him to leave with them. Slorc LIB 53 and 439 continued their destruction of See Day village. They burned down an additional fifteen (15) houses in the western part of the village. They also burnt a Karen Bramaso temple. In the evening, they completed their destructio by burning down the remaining houses, barns, plantations and any rice field found near the village. On 18.3.97, Slorc LIB 57 and LIB 59 entered Naw Yo Hta village. They shot and killed three villages. Saw Maw Ray Heh (age 50), his daughter, Naw Hla Sein (age 26) and his nephew, Saw Maung Say (age 32). They wounded his son, Saw Yo Tha (age 22) and his youngest daughter, Naw Paw Eh wa (age 10). These two managed to later escape. Slorc LIB 53 and 439 destroyed another barn in See Day village. This barn contained the village harvest of 240 baskets of rice. They then continued onto Baw Lay Der village and burned down twenty(20) houses. On 19.3.97, Slorc LIB 53 and 439 entered Kleh Mu village and burned down nineteen (19) houses, one Christian church, and twenty (20) rice fields. They occupied the village until 22.3.97 burning and destroying in their path. Slorc troops operating in the northern Papun area have been capturing women and children to be used forcibly as porters. On 21.3.97, thirty (30) of these captive porters escaped and were sheltered by KNU troops. Among the escaped porters, one woman was pregnant. These porters were captured from the Mone Township, Ta Kaw Pwa village, Way Sweh village, Po Thaung Zu village, and Pa Na Wah village. ****************************************************** THAILAND TIMES: OVER 1,000 KAREN REFUGEES RETURN TO BURMA March 30, 1997 by Assawin Pinitwong TAK: Around 1,500 Karen refugees sheltering in a camp in Tak's Umphang district yesterday returned to Burma, allegedly voluntarily, according to a Thai military source. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said the refugees from Ban Nu Pho camp, most of them women, children, and the elderly, crossed the border to settle near the Burmese town of Myawaddy. The refugees are reportedly family members of former soldiers form the Karen National Union (KNU)'s 6th Division's 16th Battalion, who were forced to surrender and hand over their arms to the Burmese troops at Kya Inn Seik Gyi in February. Their return follows promises by the junta that the refugees will be well provided for if they come back to their homeland, an assurance over which many Karens and human rights monitors have expressed suspicion. Reports form Burma indicate that the junta is keen to win the surrendered soldiers over to their side, and have agreed to appoint Lt-Col Tameuhae, the former commander of Battalion 16, as a member of the National Convention. The junta also apparently has plans to allocate the leadership of Karen State to Tameuhae as a reward for his capitulation to the regime. A source from Myawaddy said the former KNU soldiers are now working alongside the Burmese troops as volunteer police officers and soldiers, patrolling Karen State where fighting between the KNU and the junta remains intense. The source claimed that the volunteers are provided with money and food by the Burmese troops. He also reiterated calls for KNU soldiers still fighting the regime to surrender, saying that the junta will welcome them with open arms and ensure that they are given assistance. *********************************************************** NLM: SECRETARY-2 MET STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF AZIN REGION IN KYA-IN SEIKKYI TOWNSHIP March 26, 1997 (The New Light of Myanmar) (*BurmaNet Editor's Note: Azin is located close to the Thai- Burma border south of Myawaddy and was controlled by the KNU until last month. Now it is under SLORC control. ) YANGON, 25 March-Secretary-2 of the State Law and Order Restoration Council Lt-Gen Tin Oo met students and teachers of Azin region in Kya-in Seikkyi Township at the hall of battalion in South Okkalapa Township this morning. Present were Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen Soe Myint, Chief of Staff (Navy) Commodore Nyunt Thein, Chief of Staff (Air) Brig-Gen Kyaw Than, Vice-Adjutant-General Brig-Gen Than Tun, Vice-Quartermaster-General Brig-Gen Thein Tun, Director of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare Brig-Gen Aung Thein, senior military officers, Officer on Special Duty at the Office of the State Law and Order Restoration Council Lt-Col Than Tint and officials. The Secretary-2 said there were misunderstandings among the national brethren and they lived far apart due to divide-and-rule tactics of the colonialists and such an excursion trip forged close friendship among them. ******************************************** ANNOUNCEMENT: PICTURES OF REFUGEES AND BURNED CAMPS March 27, 1997 From: wtongue Dear Friends, I selected 17 pictures from the video that Larry Dohrs sent me of the refugees and the burned camp. They are posted at http://users.imagiware.com/wtongue/refugees.html The colors and image quality lead me to believe these pictures are converted PAL format. Their impact, however, is in no way lessened by the changes they have been through on their way to you. The 17 pictures displayed are those I made myself select from the 87 I wanted to post. If you want to see the rest, contact Larry for a copy of the video ($10!). My thanks to him for making this invaluable resource available. Peace and Courage, Wrightson *******************************************************