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News from ABSDF
   From:         Coban Tun <tun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Date:         1998/09/15
   Message-ID:   <35FE6E36.446B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Newsgroups:   soc.culture.burma 
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   YIT (Yangon Institute of Technology) and GTI (Government Technical
   Institute) students in Rangoon finished their exams today and are
   currently
   holding a political meeting inside the YIT university compound.  Before
   all
   students have to leave for home tomorrow,  the students are planning to
   hold a demonstration this evening. 

   The Military Intelligence has already learned of the meeting, and 400
   riot
   police and soldiers have been deployed at the Agricultural Research
   Dept.
   compound, just opposite YIT. Among them are sixty riot police from Riot
   police force No 6, 30 police from Rangoon western district police and 20
   police from Hlaing police station. Two fire trucks from Hlaing and  two
   from North Oakalapa have arrived in this compound. There are 6 firemen
   on
   each truck. Rangoon Deputy Divisional Commander Col Thura Myint Maung
   and
   Police chief U Aung Nwe are commanding the troops at the gate of YIT.

   Fire brigades throughout Rangoon have been ordered to have their trucks
   on
   stand by. USDA members have also been assigned to take security duty in
   different places near YIT.

   Deployment of other riot police and troops in adjacent areas;

   Parami - Mindama road - two companies
   Insein-Parami raod- one company
   Tha Mine intersection - one company
   Shwe Gon Daing (Special Branch) Damayone - one company
   AD-Parami- Pyi road - one company
   Sinmalite (highway bus station)-  one company
   Saw Bwa Gyi kone (highway Bus station) - one company

   There is another student gathring at Hledan intersection now.

   The ABSDF has also learned that three special operation battalions
   consisting of 900-1000 troops have recently been set up under the
   command
   of Rangoon Divisional Commander Khin Maung Than.  Two of the battalions
   are
   based in Hmawbi and one in Syriam. In case of unrest, they can block the
   two main roads in and out of Rangoon and seal off the city.

   Other news
   --------------

   Because of heavy rain, dams in nothern Burma (Kachin state) and
   north-western Burma (Sagaing Divion)  are in danger of bursting. Dams in
   Pakoku, Gangaw, Sagaing, Khandi, Myitkyina, Myin Mu, Bhamo are of
   particular concern. If these dams break, lots of farms and homes would
   be
   flooded. Authorities have ordered the local people to evacuate from a
   number of places near the dams.