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NEWS - MYANMARESE RIOT IN CAMP (r)



It is very important that Thailand should know using
the "FORCE" does not work to handle the students in
the camp. Open talk and peaceful solution will help
both side to finish this "Overly Reaction" cricis by
Thai authorities. 

Again, Thai should remember that the students are
young educators who have been struggling to restore
democracy in their home land, but they are not
economic refugees as Loa and Cambodian refugees in
Thailand.



--- Rangoon Post Co-Editor <RangoonPost@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Source:      Refugees Daily
>  Date:       Wednesday 17 November 1999
>  Title:      THAILAND: MYANMARESE RIOT IN CAMP
>  Text:
>        About 100 Myanmar dissidents have clashed
> with guards at a
> holding centre
>        in western Thailand, leaving at least two
> people injured, police
> said today,
>        reports Reuters. The dissidents started the
> hour-long riot last
> night after
>        guards at the Maneeloy camp in Ratchaburi
> province refused to let
> them out to
>        get a colleague who had been arrested over
> the weekend for
> stealing. One
>        Myanmar dissident suffered a gunshot wound
> and was hospitalised,
> as was a
>        Thai security guard who was beaten up by the
> mob, a police
> spokesman said.
>        About 1,000 dissidents, who fled violence and
> political
> suppression in
>        Myanmar in 1988, have been held in the
> Maneeloy centre since 1993
> under an
>        arrangement with UNHCR. Frustrated by tight
> regulations governing
> their
>        movements out of the centre, they have been
> restless in past
> weeks. AFP
>        adds a member of the Burmese Students
> Association claimed that
> several
>        students had been wounded but most of the
> shots fired by security
> forces
>        were directed into the air. [Myanmar
> dissidents riot at Thai
> holding centre ?
>        www.reuters.com; Exiled Myanmar students
> clash with Thai police ?
>        www.afp.com]
> 

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