Asia Week Article Please (r)

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Dear  Ks.Jaiyen ,S.H.A.N and all Burmanetters and  Keneth Oo ( Sydney)

Please find exact print out of 17 July 1998 ,Asiaweek regarding NCGUB.


Regards

panyoma




' SECRET' EXODUS LEAVES NCGUB'LEADERLESS'IN THAILAND News ( based on an
item in the July 17 edition of Asiaweek and other sources)

Diplomats join Net buffs in questioning financial credibility of exile
government


BANGKOK - This week's edition of Asiaweek speculates that the Burmese
resistance movement has been dealt a severe blow with the departure of
NCGUB cabinet ministers Maung Maung Aye, Teddy Buri,Sann Aung,Thein Oo and
other senior figures who " decamped" to Sydney in mid-june.According to the
widely read newsmagazine,the move followed" secret tripartite talks between
exiled Burmese leaders and the Thai and Australian governments ."The
article contends that the exodus of the NCGUB officials " has removed
Thailand as a base for the exiled Burmese government-and severely dented
its clout as a resistance movement ".

"Sympathetic" diplomats in Bangkok,whose governments gave financial aid to
the exiles in the passt,Asiaweek reports, are " miffed by their clandestine
departure and concerned about the funds they have been giving them". The
doubts of the diplomats find resonance in a debate currently being
conducted on the internet by exiles in Australia, Thailand and the U.S. who
charge that the
" government-in - exile" has lost credibility with many of its supporters
because of the way it has been spending money received from foreign
governments and agencies. So far the NCGUB has stonewalled their attempts
to get at its accounts.



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