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Indo-Burma border news                 
 
 
On 3.7.97, local villager found three corpses with gunshot wound at 
their heads in a hut of hillside cultivation field near Zaothe village.
That 
Zaothe village belong to Falam township, Chin state of Burma. Among 
those bodies, two are male and one is female. They are;
 
1. Tun Lin- Sergeant from Burma Regiment No (268)
2. Soe Myint -  Rifleman from Burma Regiment No (268)
3. Ms. Van Lai Pal- Local Villager
 
Details of event are as follow.
At the night of 30.6.97 between 11 and 12 pm, three persons escaped 
from regimental lock-up of Falam based Burma Regiment No (268) 
after removing iron bar of ventilation window of the cell. All of them 
are soldiers from Burma Regiment No (268). Sergeant Tun lin was put 
into the lock-up due to the misuse of money collected from cow 
smuggling dealers as tax. Other two riflemen Soe Myint and  Ko Oo 
were put into regimental lock-up because they tried to run away from 
their regiment.
 
A platoon of Burma Regiment No (268) started the search operation to 
arrest the deserters in the same night. That platoon reached to the 
Zaothe village on 2.7.97 and platoon commander threatened the village 
chief and villagers that the village would be burnt down and all male 
villagers would be terminated unless they disclosed the place where the 
deserters were hidding. So the villagers disclosed the place of hidding.
 
The army surrounded the hut inside the hillside cultivation field near 
Zaothe village, where the deserters hid at afternoon of the same day. At 
that time three deserters and Ms. Van Lai Pal, a local woman were in 
the hut.        
 
Although they tried to escape, the army apprehended all of them except 
rifleman Ko Oo. Three arrested people were interrogated the whole day 
in that hut. Ms. Van Lai Pal confessed that she agreed with deserters to 
send them to anti-SLORC revolutionary forces staying at Indo-Burma 
border.
 
Colonel Ohn Thwin, Commander of Military Tactical Command No 
(1), North-West Command ordered to Major Khin Maung Wai, Deputy 
Commander of Burma Regiment No (268) that to terminate all the 
deserters including the woman and then to report as death in an 
encounter.
 
Tun Lin, Soe Myint and Ms. Van Lai Pal were killed at the night of 
2.7.97 in the same hut. 
 
Major Khin Maung Wai brutally beat rifleman Aung Myint Tun 
unconscious and put him in the lock-up without giving any food. 
Rifleman Aung Myint Tun took place the guard duty for lock-up when 
three soldiers escaped from there.
 
News and Information Unit
ABSDF (Western-Burma)