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April 11, 1996 #381 - ROB DUTCH PAI
- Subject: April 11, 1996 #381 - ROB DUTCH PAI
- From: BURMAJAPAN@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:08:00
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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