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The Nation:Burmese student gets 4 m



Subject: The Nation:Burmese student gets 4 months for attack on guards

Dear all activists, 
Thai police raped a Burmese student girl in 1989, killed a Burmese student in
Nat E Taung in 1992. Thai government did not take any effective and legal 
actions to policemen who involved and assult these brutal occurances. Please 
send e-mail campagin to Thai Police department and priminister office 
regarding those issues.

Msoe
Burma Studies Group

Burmese student gets 4 months for attack on guards

A RATCHABURI Court yesterday sentenced a Burmese student to four months in 
jail
and fined him Bt2,100 for assaulting two Thai security guards at the Maneeloy
holding centre last week. 

The court also placed the student, Myint Rui, on one year's probation for the
assault on security guards Somchai Bunlert and Somsak Kunglung at the centre 
on
Nov 16. 

Myint Rui was convicted on two charges: obstructing and assaulting authorised
officials. 

The court was told that on Nov 16, Myint Rui, carrying a fake gun, obstructed
and refused a search request by security guard Sumitr Buntin. He then punched
Somchai and Somsak when they came to Sumitr's assistance. 

Myint Rui was the first to face trial after Burmese students at the Maneeloy
centre conducted a series of assaults on Thai and UN High Commissioner for
Refugees officials. 

The Burmese students' anger at Thai authorities increased after they imposed
stricter regulations at the centre and demanded that those who were still
outside must return or face legal action. 

Thai villagers living around the centre had complained repeatedly that the
students were drunken, noisy and stole their chickens. 

Government spokesman Akapol Sorasuchart said Burmese students who are
dissatisfied with Thailand's regulations should leave the country. 

''Those who are not satisfied with what we are doing to keep order at the
centre have the right to leave,'' he said. 

''Wherever they live, they have to respect and recognise that country's laws
and regulations,'' he added. 

The spokesman was responding to a report that the Burmese students had
circulated their criticism of the Thai worldwide through the Internet. 

''Let me check the information on the issue. If the information they sent is
inaccurate, I have to make a clarification,'' he added. 

He said he is confident that non-government agencies and human rights-related
organisations would understand that Thai's position towards the issue. 

Meanwhile, about 1,000 Burmese would soon cross over the border into 
Ratchaburi
province to evade Burmese government troops trying to take over the 
headquarter
of a dissidents' army which reportedly gave sanctuary to five captors of the
Burmese embassy in Bangkok, provincial officials said.