the ambassador thing

[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

you know there is a good chance that they were really after the
ambassador, i posted a query about that on friday-saturday, where's the
ambassador, and after we see that in some reports press even reports
that they were after the ambassador, and the burmese say that they were
going to kill the ambassador which is bull. what is possible is that
they simply detained the people at the embassy, no hostage takeover at
all, and used them only as a way out of there, which was pretty smart in
the end, and if this is true, and they pulled it off, well they got
their ass out of there in a hurry, didnt they...ds


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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