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Bkk post-Checkpoint reopened



Bangkok Post June 3, 1999.
BORDER
Checkpoint reopened
Tak

Thai authorities reopened a temporary border checkpoint in Phop Phra
district yesterday after pro-Rangoon Karen forces agreed to compensate for
damage caused to local Thai villagers by their recent cross-border shelling.

The checkpoint at Ban Valey, closed in mid-April, was reopened yesterday by
Col Chayuti Boonparn, commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment Task Force.

Border officials ordered the closure of the checkpoint, which provided
access to Burma's Tisalae village, after the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army
fired heavy artillery rounds into Thai territory. The shelling caused some
30,000 baht worth of damage to properties of local Thai villagers, a source
said.

The closure had adversely affected cross-border trading between the two
countries, the source said, adding the trade volume at this checkpoint
amounted to about one million baht daily.

According to the source, the checkpoint is a major furniture export market
for the DKBA.