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Dear Friends,

this story made me thinking. Like we all know, the burmese government
try all ways to denounce the democracy movement as terrorists and
"destructive elements" which want to harm the country. At the same time,
they obviously put fire in the Shwedagon Pagoda and accuse the
opposition, or they incite religios riots.

Why should it be impossible, that the hostage taking was not planned by
the SPDC too? The "Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors" have been unknown
before, but have been very well equipped with arms? Why was the
ambassador away at just this moment? Why did they didn't caused any
special damage in the embassy? Why, why, why?
We should also do research on this way.

Regards
Heiko

Heiko Schaefer wrote:
> 
> Hostage taking came just in the right moment for Burmese military
> 
> Frankfurter Rundschau, October 4 1999
> by Jürgen Dauth (Hong Kong)
> 
> BLOODLEES END OF THE ACTION IN BANGKOK / EXILES ON DISTANCE TO THE
> "STUDENT WARRIORS"
> 
> The hostage taking in the Burmese embassy in Bangkok was ended without
> bloodshed. To the Burmese democracy movement this action of protest did
> a great harm. The Burmese generals could not create a better propaganda:
> the five armed hostage takers confirmed their slogan that the democracy
> movement of the Peace Nobel Price laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is a
> terroristic organisation.
> 
> Owing to the farsightedness of the Thai authorities the hostage taking
> ended bloodless. The 89 Burmese and foreigners, amongst them one German,
> got released after 26 hours at Saturday. The hostage takers got flown
> to the Burmese border; there they let the "activists" escape
> unhindered. Thailand would like to repatriate all here living
> exil-Burmese people. In Thailand there are some 100.000 exiles,
> additionally there are several 100.000 illegal workers. The "Vigorous
> Burmese Student Warriors", how the five hostage takers called
> themselves, did not have any direkt link to the Burmese democracy
> movement. "We are shocked," complained Teddy Buri a spokesman of the
> National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB), which umbrellas several
> exil groups. Before, Burmese exiles did two time draw attention to the
> oppresion in Burma by aeroplane hijacking. Such actions are harmful,
> said Buri. The hostage takers came out of a - by the exiles feared -
> camp in Ratchaburi, 140 km west of Bangkok, which is also known for its
> tensions between different political groups. Here also settled
> extremists like the God Army, whose teenage leader claim he has a direct
> connection to god.
> 
> Buri called the hostage taking as a awakening call. More dangerous and
> more violent actions of protest can no more be excluded in future,
> especially if the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, won't
> put its member Burma under stronger pressure for achieving a political
> normalisation. The Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan took this
> occasion to repeat his request to the ASEAN "to affect positive on
> Burma. But the political will is missing."
> 
> [Translated from German by Heiko Schäfer]
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