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CHIN -- URGENT ACTION



 
URGENT ACTION REQUIRED
 
 
The Burma Peace Foundation has recently heard, from Chin sources, that John
Khaw Kim Thang (Burmese name NoThan Kap), founder and former President
of the Chin National Front (CNF), living in Aizawl, Mizoram, India, is now in
the hands of the Burmese army. Since March 1988 he has had no military
involvement with the CNF. In 1994 and 1995 he addressed the UN Working
Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva.
 
On 21 August he received a call asking him to go and meet Indian Intelligence.
On 28 August, his family received a letter from him smuggled out of Burma
saying that he was in the hands of the Burmese army. Indian Intelligence denies
all knowledge of the matter.
 
Please alert the media and ask all appropriate UN officers, governments and
human rights organisations to ask the Burmese authorities for further details of
No Than Kap's detention and inform the Burmese authorities that his well-being and physical integrity are of concern to the international community.
 
 
More details follow in a few hours.
 
 
David Arnott
 
30 August 1996
 
 
Burma Peace Foundation, 85, Rue de Montbrillant, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
Tel/Fax  (+41-22) 733 2040; Email darnott@xxxxxxxxxxx
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