email the Guardian Weekly!

[bmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

dear spiders:

i've noticed that the last 2 issues of the Guardian Weekly have had zero
coverage of the Karen refugee situation on the Thai border.  last week they
did a story on slorc's offensive against the KNU, but no mention was made of
the plight of the refugees, the burning of the camps by the DKBA, etc.

i urge you to email them, and ask them to step up their coverage of these
events, highlighting the forced repatriation being committed by the thai
army, the DKBA's attacks, slorc's ongoing human rights abuses in the area:
its use of forced porterage, human mine-sweepers, rape, etc.

the Guardian is internationally recognized for it's "left" of center stance,
its high-quality investigative reporting, and its support of human rights.
it's time they brought this situation to light for their readers.

their email address is

weekly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


w/metta

bruce




At 10:01 97/02/26, you wrote:
> From: Carol Schlenker + Aung Thu <carol@xxxxxxx>
> 
> SPEAK UP FOR THE KAREN REFUGEES!
> <from Burmese Relief Center--Japan>
> 
> SLORC, continuing its campaign of $BEQ(Jreserving the union$BG
(Jby exterminating
> the opposition, is attacking Karen refugee camps with virtual impunity.
> Thai army officials and teak traders in the border area, meanwhile, have
> taken foreign policy into their own hands.  Defying international law, they
> are dividing Karen families, forcing unarmed men back across the border at
> Htee Kee to face the advancing Burmese army and herding women and children
> into logging trucks for $BET(Jafe$BG
(Jpassage back into Burma$BMB(Jnd into danger.
> These Thais have steadfastly refused local NGOs and diplomats access to the
> refugees yet have feebly stood by as a foreign army attacked those same
> refugees on Thai soil.
> 
> Now is the time to speak out against Thailand$BCT(J complicity in SLORC$BCT(J
> persecution of Karen refugees.  Also note that Thailand has never signed the
> UN Declaration on Refugees yet holds a seat on the UN standing committee on
> refugees$BMB(J seat from which it should step down.  Burmese Relief Center$BM+(Japan
> urges you to protest Thailand$BCT(J failure to protect Karen refugees and its
> efforts to forcibly repatriate them to Burma in an e-mail to the following:
> 
> * Gen. Chaovalit Youngchaiyuth, Prime Minister of Thailand, c/o Government
> Spokesman <govspkmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> * Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs <webmaster@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> * Thai newspapers:  Matichon Newspaper <mati-1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, The Nation
> <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bangkok Post <postbag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> or
> <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> * Your own country$BCT(J head of state, foreign minister and local media
> 
> 
>