NEWS - Myanmar jails more than 300

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Subject: NEWS - Myanmar jails more than 300 Bangladesh fishermen

Myanmar jails more than 300 Bangladesh fishermen

  
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Myanmar border guards have
jailed more than 300 Bangladeshis they accuse of illegal fishing,
officials said on Tuesday. 

But the president of the Bangladeshi Teknaf Fishing Boat Owners
Association said the fishermen were abducted while in Bangladeshi
territorial waters on the Naf river and from near Saint Martin island in
the Bay of Bengal. 

``These people have been languishing in Myanmar jails for several
months,'' said Rashid Ahmad. 

The Naf river partly demarcates the two Asian neighbours. 

``Nasaka often abduct Bangladeshi fishermen along with boats from
Bangladesh territory. We get many of them released after negotiations
with Myanmar authorities,'' said Colonel Waliullah of the Bangladesh
Rifles border force. 

02:24 12-07-99
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RANGOON POST NOTE:  While these people rot in a Burmese prison for
something they never did, who will take care of their families and their
businesses?