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Hostage takers vow to further fight



Subject: Hostage takers vow to further fight!!!!!!!!!!

WE ALL LOVE YOU !!!!! YES YES YES!!!
WE JUST NEED TEN THOUSAND MORE LIKE YOU WELL ARMED ORGANISED AND TRAINED
AND THEN MAYBE THE JUNTA WILL CRACK AND FALL SOONER THAN LATER.

YOU CAN BE SURE THERE ARE THOUSANDS OUT THERE PRAYING FOR YOUR SAFETY
AND LONG LIFE.

dawn star

Thida(DVB) wrote:
> 
> Hostage takers vow to further fight against Myanmar junta
> 
>    BANGKOK, Nov 11 (AFP) - The five gunmen who stormed the Myanmar embassy
> here last month on Thursday defiantly vowed to press on with their militant
> fight against the junta in Yangon.
>    The pro-democracy gunmen, not seen since their dramatic escape into the
> jungles of eastern Myanmar aboard a helicopter supplied by the Thai
> government, denied reports they were about to surrender.
>    "We, the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors (VBSW), who claimed
> responsibility for the 24-hour embassy hostage drama, do not have a plan to
> surrender to the Thai government," they said in a statement received by AFP
> late Thursday.
>    "We decided to fight against the military dictatorship and to continue our
> revolution until we are dead.
>    "We are ready to die in action," the hand-written statement said.
>    The gunmen took the embassy on October 1, holding 38 people hostage for
> more than 24 hours and initially demanding the ruling military in Myanmar
> open
> talks with the democratic opposition led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
>    The siege ended after the Thai government supplied a helicopter and a
> substitute hostage in the form of Deputy Foreign Minister Sukhumbhand
> Paribatra to take them to the border.
>    Media reports here last week said the gunmen had written to the government
> requesting permission to go to a third country if they surrender to Thai
> authorities.
>    But Thai government spokesman Akapol Sorasuchart has said the reports were
> untrue and even if they were Thailand would not cooperate.
>    "It is impossible (for them to seek refuge abroad) because they violated
> Thai law and must face legal action in Thailand," Akapol said.
>    Myanmar has demanded that Thailand arrest the students, whom it views as
> terrorists. The incident has soured relations between the two neighbours.
>    A senior member of VBSW told AFP last month the five gunmen were moving
> between villages on the Myanmar side of the countries' mutual border border.
>    He said the group felt it had achieved its objectives in storming the
> embassy.
>    Exiles said the VBSW was formed shortly before the planned 9/9/99
> uprising,
> or "Four Nines Movement," last month in which exiled dissidents encouraged
> those inside Myanmar to replicate a mass uprising on August 8, 1988, or
> 8/8/88.
> 
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