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Subject: Bkk Post-Rebel forces kill seven pro-Rangoon soldiers

Bangkok Post July 12, 1999.
Rebel forces kill seven pro-Rangoon soldiers
300 Thais forced to flee border fighting

Supamart Kasem
Tak

Seven soldiers of the pro-Rangoon Democratic Karen Buddhist Army were
reported killed and four other people injured during an attack by rival
Karen National Union forces on their strongholds in Burma opposite Phop Phra
district.

During the fighting, more than 300 people living in a nearby Thai border
village fled their homes after a mortar shell landed on the house of a
former local leader.

A border official said the battle between about 100 anti-Rangoon KNU troops
and about 150 DKBA soldiers took place after the KNU ambushed several DKBA
camps opposite Waleh village about 4am Saturday.

The KNU guerrillas pulled back after more than two hours of fighting.

The conflict claimed the lives of seven DKBA troops and four other Karens.

A girl was also injured.

During the battle, about 300 Thais living in tambon Waleh sought shelter
well away from the village after a mortar shell landed on the roof of a
house owned by former kamnan Prayoon Putsa.

Thai security forces did not respond as they considered the explosion an
accident, according to a source.