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Subject: PRESS RELEASE OF THE ABSDF(VOICE OF THE PEACOCK)

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                                 ABSDF
                  ALL BURMA STUDENTS' DEMOCRATIC FRONT
                                    
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                              PRESS RELEASE
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                                                      Date: July 20, 1995

                                    
                   Forced contribution in Kayah State
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Burma's ruling military junta, the Slorc has planned to hold a
big student sports Carnival in Kayah State in November. In
preparation for this occasion, the local Slorc officials are
forcing the local people to contribute towards the cost of the
construction work. Each student from middle school must pay 200
Kyats, for high school students 500 Kyats each, and from each
ordinary family 200 Kyats. Some families have to pay even more
money as their forced contribution.

The local officials also collect forced donations of motorbikes,
trucks and even bicycles from their owners. The owner of saw
mills are being forced to cut the necessary timber for
constructions for the sports festival.

The roads in Loikaw are being widened by 25 feet and some
monasteries and houses have had to be destroyed for the road
widening.
( Photos of a monastery and houses damaged by the road widening
in Loikaw available from ABSDF Information Dept.)

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              The politicians are rubbish, said Khin Nyunt
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According to a reliable source inside Burma, On July 11, a day
after the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the military junta's
intelligence chief, Lt Gen Khin Nyunt, invited the ceased-fire
ethnic leaders to Rangoon, he then made an attempt to woo them
saying "it is better if we militarymen can work together but if
the politicians were involved, things will become complicated and
difficult. Let us unite against them (pro-democratic forces)".

The meeting was attended by a number of ethnic leaders, including
UWSA leaders, namely, Gyo Nyi liang, Pao Yo Chan and Gyo Bontan. 


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                            By friend or foe?
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Tin Huan Min, the commander of No.(525) regiment of UWSA (United
Wa State Army) which made a cease-fire agreement with Slorc in
1989 went to Kunming in Yunnan state of China. He disappeared on
May 20, 1995, for unknown reasons. U Win Ko, a Minister of NCGUB
(National Coalition Government of Union Of Burma), mysteriously
disappeared while in Kunming in 1993. 



Voice of the Peacock
ABSDF

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    For more information please contact: Zaw Min_ joint-Secretary of
     Foreign Affairs Department of the ABSDF (Chairman Moe Thee Zun)
                                    
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