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Arakan rebels fear deportation (Ind



Subject: Arakan rebels fear deportation (India MIs betrayed the rebels to

SLORC)
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what is going on.

BBC - March 24, 1999

Arakan rebels fear deportation (India MIs betrayed the rebels to SLORC)
(See RP Note Below)

A spokesman for a group of more than seventy Burmese Arakan rebels
jailed
in India says he fears they will be extradited to Rangoon, and could
face
execution by the military authorities there.

The spokesman, Ahin Maung of the National Unity Party of Arakan said the
rebels were arrested in the Andaman Islands last year, and accused of
smuggling guns to rebels in India's north-eastern states.

Ahin Maung said the guns were intended for their colleagues in Arakan,
where guerrillas are continuing their armed campaign against Burmese
rule.

Ahin Maung said India had been allowing them to use the Andaman Islands
which belong to India as a safe haven since 1995, in return for giving
India intelligence information on Chinese naval activity around the
Burmese
coast.

RANGOON POST NOTE: This is the same group that was betrayed and arrested
and or killed by India's MIs (millitary intelligence) about 1 year ago.
They were apprehended After purchasing the arms from the Indian MIs on
the Andaman Islands.  SLORC/SPDC representatives were there.  Some of
the rebels were reported missing either lost in the ocean after being
shot or arrested and taken to Rangoon.  
  They WILL be arrested, tortured and probally killed if they are
forcibly returned to Burma!