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SLORC Offensives, Updates from KNPP



Subject: SLORC Offensives, Updates from KNPP and

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Burmese Relief Center--Japan
DATE:July 2, 1995
TIME: 6:57PM  JST

THE KARENNI NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY
STATEMENT
30th June 1995

Fierce fighting broke out today at about 9 am around Kauk
Kauk's outer perimeter and at Mae Surin confluence.  More
SLORC troops have been thrown into KNPP areas, since the
latter issued its statement dated June 28, regarding SLORC
military activities in Karenni.  SLORC has now between four
to five thousand troops spread out and poised for an all-out
onslaught on Karenni bases.  To "support" them, SLORC
has pressed hundreds of men, women, and students to serve
as porters.  Tractors, bullocks, bullock carts and horses are
being requisitioned to carry military equipment, ammunition,
and other supplies.

SLORC has tried to hood-wink and divert the attention of
the international community by announcing that it has, as
reported in Bangkok Post, Friday, June 30, 1005, repeatedly
requested access through KNPP dominated area in order to
attack the Mong Tai head-quarters.  The irony is that
SLORC has the whole of Shan State from which to launch
attacks against Khun Sa.  It does not in the least need to
cross the tiny Karenni territory to attack the Mong Tai
headquarters.  The fact that SLORC is launching an all-out
military offensive against Karenni is not because Karenni has
refused them access through Karenni to attack the Mong Tai
headquarters, but to neutralize Karenni forces and to
subjugate the Karenni people.  Given the fact that SLORC
has a long history of broken promises and outright lies, this is
nothing but pure fabrication.

SLORC, in pursuit of its objectives - to destroy the Karenni
forces and to subjugate the Karenni people - is brazenly
violating human rights on a grand scale.  To mount the
military offensive against the KNPP, it has collected porter
fees -- 200 Kyats per household, pressed 1500 civilians,
women and children included, to serve as porters, and
requisitioned tractors, bullock carts and horses into service. 
This is rice growing season, and tractors, bullocks and
bullock carts are absolutely indispensable for the farmers.

SLORC's present military offensive has driven more than a
thousand Karenni people to seek refuge in existing Karenni
refugee camps situated along the border inside Thailand. 
Currently, there are more than six thousand Karenni refuges
along the border.

Karenni is a small nation.  It is a small people.  It is
struggling to defend its freedom and its territorial integrity. 
The enemy which is seeking to subjugate it is a hundred
times stronger.  But, we believe that our cause is just, and
that freedom is something worth fighting for.  As a result, we
have, in spite of the heavy odds against us, decided to
continue fighting.  We will go on fighting until we achieve
our freedom.

On the other hand, we are looking outward to all peace
loving nations and peoples the world over -- governments,
non-government organizations and individuals - to support
our just fight, and to extend assistance to us in whatever way
they can.  We request them to lend their voice in condemning
and pressuring SLORC into abiding by the agreement it
reached with KNPP three months ago, and withdrawing its
troops from the KNPP area.

Failure by the international community to do so will not only
mean sanctioning SLORC's human rights abuses, it will also
embolden and encourage SLORC to continue embarking on
its militaristic and despotic designs which are certain to
threaten the stability of the region.

30th June 1995

Central Committee Karenni National Progressive Party

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All Burma Students' Democratic Front 
Central Committee Headquarters

BURMA UPDATE NEWS
July 1, 1995

SLORC Launched an Offensive against KNU Division No. 4
Controlled Area

SLORC's troops, Regiment No. 401, 404, 405, 409,
numbering about 1,000 with 1,500 porters has launched an
offensive against the KNU Division No. 4 controlled area
since the third week of June.  Since June 17 until now,
SLORC and the KNU engaged 6 times.  As a result, one
KNU and twenty SLORC soldiers expired.  On June 25, the
SLORC's troops pounded the The-Byu-Gyaung village, at
Tha-yet-chaung township in Tennaserium Division
(southeast, 45 kilometers far from That-yet-chaung) with
heavy artillery shells and burnt down.  Hundreds of villagers
from The-Byu-Gyaung, Kyauk Htu, Ta-nin-kha-ru and Sin-ku-aing, surrounding are
a, fled at random.  SLORC's
soldiers chased and shot at them.  As a result, two villagers
died.  One was Kaw Kyar Khin, who was 22 years old.  On
June 29, over 100 villagers who escaped from the killing
field got to the E-ma-ra village about 12 kilometers from the
Thai.-Burma border (west of Kanchanaburi in Thailand).

ABSDF News Agency (Dawn Gwin)