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April 11, 1996 #381 - ROB DUTCH PAI



Subject: Re:  April 11, 1996 #381 - ROB DUTCH PAIR, RAPE WIFE

Question, Does anyone know/suspect that this was planned higher up?  Yes,...
it is still quite possible that the soldiers did it on their on accord.  As
military groups past/ present (even Americans) have self-commited atrocities.

In a message dated 96-04-11 20:19:02 EDT, you write:

>BKK POST: ?BURMESE TROOPS? ROB DUTCH PAIR, RAPE WIFE
>April 11,1996
>
>A Dutch couple were allegedly robbed at gunpoint and the 
>woman raped by Burmese soldiers at a border village near the 
>Moei River yesterday.
>
>The 32-year-old man told Mae Sot district police he and his 
>27-year-old wife were attacked by five Burmese soldiers 
>while visiting Ye Poo Pagoda in Ban Wang Takhian opposite 
>Burma?s Wang Kha military camp.
>
>He said the soldiers held him and his wife at gunpoint and 
>took two mountain bikes, two wristwatches and several gold 
>ornaments worth about 40,000 baht from them.
>
>He said three soldiers then crossed the river bank into 
>Burma, but two others raped his wife before freeing them. 
>The woman was later taken to Pawor Hospital in Mae Sot. 
>
>The couple have been working as researchers for a malaria 
>research unit in Tha Song Yang District for seven months. 
>(BP)
>
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