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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:47:07 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Praman's wife sued for illegal gains

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From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>

THE Finance Ministry has filed a suit against Thanpuying Charoen
Adireksarn demanding she hand over 10 million baht which her
husband, Chart Thai Party leader Pramarn Adireksarn, is suspected
of acquiring while serving as interior minister in the Chatichai
Choonhavan Cabinet.

The lawsuit was filed with the Civil Court by Permanent Secretary
for Finance Pandit Boonyapana yesterday.

The ministry stated in its lawsuit that under National
Peace-keeping Council Order No 26 a committee was set up to
examine the assets of politicians and Cabinet ministers in the
Chatichai administration suspected of acquiring extra wealth while
in office.

The assets examination committee ruled that Pol Gen Pramarn had
acquired extra wealth worth about 139.7 million baht.

This included 9.9 million baht in Thanpuying Charoen's bank
account at Bangkok Bank's Soi Aree branch.

The money was deposited by Pol Gen Pramarn's wife in a series of
eight deposits. Thanpuying Charoen told the Finance Ministry the
money was part of a 10 million baht debt owed her by a man
identified as Vichit Chavananand.

Thanpuying Charoen could not produce evidence to support her claim
however and the Finance Ministry thought this strange because of
the huge amount involved.

The ministry also stated in its lawsuit that Thanpuying Charoen
did not pay any personal income tax and Pol Gen Pramarn had
testified to the assets examination committee that his wife had no
income.

It is therefore thought the money in the bank was deposited by
Thanpuying Charoen on behalf of Pol Gen Pramarn.

The Finance Ministry is demanding that Thanpuying Charoen hand
over the money plus 7.5 per cent interest amounting to a further
10.3 million baht.

The court accepted the suit for consideration.
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Subject:      CAM: UN Rep. Akashi signs directive for ...

01/07

UN REPRESENTATIVE AKASHI SIGNS DIRECTIVE FOR ...

PHNOM PENH (JAN. 7) DPA - The United Nations Secretary General's Special
Representative to Cambodia, Yasushi Akashi, flew to Beijing for talks with
Prince Norodom Sihanouk after signing a directive that gives the go-ahead to an
UNTAC-instigated and monitored justice system in Cambodia, a U.N. spokesman
said.
   "This morning the Special Representative signed directive 93/1 establishing
procedures for the prosecution of persons responsible for human rights
violations," spokesman Eric Falt said Thursday.
   "The directive empowers UNTAC to indict individuals and to prosecute the
cases using the legal system of the appropriate existing administrative
structure," Falt said.
   The move, expected to be operational next week, is UNTAC's new weapon in the
fight to maintain law and order, protect human rights and establish a neutral
political environment before the elections scheduled for May.
   "Under the directive UNTAC will review investigations of politically
motivated acts of violence, ethnic killings or any other crime for which
justice will not have been served," Falt said.
   UNTAC has come under fire from Prince Sihanouk, his son Prince Ranariddh and
Phnom Penh Prime Minister Hun Sen for its inability to curb political violence
and human rights violations.
   Prince Sihanouk stated he will stop cooperating with UNTAC because of
political violence that continues to be committed on members of Prince
Ranariddh's political party, FUNCINPEC.
   Under the new directive, U.N. military and police officers will have the
power to arrest and detain suspects with use of force if necessary, Falt said.
   He said the scheme would involve going into Khmer Rouge zones if necessary.
   Last month the Khmer Rouge insisted U.N. peacekeepers could not enter their
zones without permission and they would suffer the consequences if this was
violated. On several occasions they have detained U.N. personnel.
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:59:15 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: VI: Prof. Hoat's letter (Vietnamese)

On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:48:39 PST Vietnam Insight said:
>>
>> Please remember the language of the list is English.  Perhaps you
>> could followup with a translation for those who don't read Vietnamese.
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>We did post the translation to SEASIA under the subject title
>
>      VI: Prof Doan Viet Hoat urges Hanoi to change
>
>Because there was a request for the original letter we later posted the
>Vietnamese version.
>
My apologies.  I missed the first post.  Sometimes things just scroll
by and my memory bank doesn't capture it.  :-)

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From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burmese muslems voice fears over unpaid labour

RTw  01/08 0442  BURMESE MOSLEMS VOICE FEARS OVER UNPAID LABOUR

    By Atiqul Alam
    CHAWGALI, Burma, Jan 8, Reuter - Moslems returning to Burma more than a year
after fleeing to Bangladesh say many refugees are afraid to come home for fear
they will be drafted by the Burmese as unpaid labourers.
    "I am happy to be back home, but my second wife and two children are still
there in Dumdamia refugee camp in Bangladesh," Syed Karim said on Thursday.
    Karim was repatriated last Saturday to his home in the Moslem village of
Chawgali in west Burma with his first wife and three children.
    He said his second wife refused to join them because she feared that the
Burmese would again employ her as an unpaid labourer for building highways.
    "That's the reason why we all went away," he said.
    Some 288,000 Rohingyas, as the Burmese Moslems are known, fled from west
Burma to Bangladesh over the past 18 months to escape alleged military
persecution. More than 8,000 have returned since repatriation began last
September.
    Some local residents said the practice of drafting minority Moslems as
unpaid labour had decreased.
    "There had been some cases recently of young people being picked up for
some free work in building a road or constructing a government building," said a
municipal clerk from nearby Maundow township who declined to be named.
    "But they do not touch older people and women anymore," he said. "The
problem is that nobody is supposed to say 'no' if called upon to do this kind
of work in the name of the state."
    Karim said he volunteered to return because he was getting old, but his
second wife would not come because she was young.
    Many of those returning said they were worried about the fate of family
members still in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
    Housewife Aleya Begum said she was facing social problems because her
husband did not accompany her when she returned from Bangladesh last month
with her four children.
    She said it was hard to find work in her home village because neighbours
were suspicious of a married woman living without a husband.
    "Everybody I meet asks why I have come back alone and I am fed up with
explaining all this to them. They don't realise that I have children to feed,"
she said.
    Begum said life in Bangladeshi refugee camps had become unbearable.
    "We used to get food all right but that's about it. We felt that we were
birds in a cage," she said.
    "There will be plenty for us to eat once I get a job. We will then have
complete freedom to move about and do a little farming on my land," Begum
said.
    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees last month distanced
itself from the repatriation programme, saying it had evidence some of the
refugees were coerced into returning. Bangladesh has denied the charge.
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From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Bungled diplomacy almost led to Thai-Burmese war, report says

UPn  12/29 0857  Bungled diplomacy almost led to Thai-Burmese war, report says

   BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Miscalculations by Thai military officials almost
led to a war between Thailand and Burma earlier this month over a disputed
border area, a news report said Tuesday.
   The English-language newspaper The Nation said a conflict was averted only
by the last-minute intervention of revered Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who
recommended both sides pull back from the area.
   As a direct result of the king's appeal, negotiators from the two sides
agreed at a meeting Dec. 8 in Rangoon to make Hill 491 a no man's land while
technical teams work to demarcate the border.
   Thailand says the strategic hill is part of its southwestern Chumpon
Province, but Rangoon also claims the area based on a map drawn up by Burma's
former British rulers.
   Bangkok said the Burmese forces occupied Hill 491 last February during an
offensive against ethnic Karen insurgents.
   The Nation, quoting Thai officials involved in the negotiations with Burma,
said the two sides came very close to war over the dispute.
   "War between Thailand and Burma over Hill 491 was averted only when HM the
King, acting on his own initiative, intervened when it appeared inevitable the
Thai military would use force to retake the disputed hill," The Nation said.
   It said Thai officials failed "to understand their Burmese counterparts --
their way of thinking -- which caused a 'loss of face' on the Thai side. This
lack of understanding quickly turned into distrust . .."
   It said Burmese negotiators had promised to bring some "good news" to a
meeting between the two sides in November, which the Thais took to mean a
withdrawal of Burmese forces from the hill.
   But the newspaper said Rangoon's "good news" turned out to be only the
dispatch of a Burmese technical team to survey the area.
   "The Thai military was upset and thought they had been betrayed by the
Burmese," the paper said. "They also viewed the broken promise as an attempt
to test Thai tolerance and unity. Talk of war, of using force to remove the
Burmese troops, rapidly became the order of the day."
   It said that although the crisis is now over, Thailand has been forced to
review its policies toward Burma and the Burmese ethnic insurgent groups which
have relied on Thailand's support for years.
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:21:51 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: VI: Prof. Hoat's letter (Vietnamese)

Please remember the language of the list is English.  Perhaps you
could followup with a translation for those who don't read Vietnamese.
Thanks in advance.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:29:32 EST
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Subject:      TH: Krisda to attend to small issues

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:50:33+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


LESSER important problems which had been ignored in the past due
to bigger ongoing projects will be tackled in the new year,
Bangkok Governor Krisda Arunvongse na Ayutthaya said yesterday.

He said issues such as garbage collection, water shortage and
flooding prevention will be paid due attention in the coming year.

During the past eight months, the governor, said he had been busy
handling some major projects initiated by the former governor such
as Area Traffic Control and Water Treatment projects.

He added that tenders for most of these projects had been opened
so he would now have more time to handle minor problems.

"Minor problems in the city will be 100 per cent better within
next year," said the governor.

He added that 36 district chiefs and 13 bureau directors had been
instructed to seriously control garbage collection and improve
district officers' service.

Moreover, the Planning and Policy Bureau had been told to carry
out a population survey in the city so that the number of
districts could be increased in order to provide better services
to residents, he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Governor Chaiwat Sinsuwong said there would be
two more additional districts in the city as the BMA planned to
upgrade the sub-districts of Suanluang and Dindang.

He said the expansion plan would be timed to coincide with the
city council election scheduled for early 1994, adding that the
number of city councillors would also be increased.
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:03:29 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: UN official holds "positive" talks with Sihanouk

01/08

U.N. OFFICIAL HOLDS "POSITIVE" TALKS WITH ...

BEIJING (JAN. 8) UPI - The chief of the United Nations authority in Cambodia,
struggling to save the country's troubled peace process, said Friday he had
held "very positive" talks with Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
   Yasushi Akashi, the head of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia
(UNTAC), met with Sihanouk for several hours Friday morning at the prince's
residence in Beijing and was scheduled to meet late Friday with Chinese
government officials.
   Akashi's trip to Beijing came after Sihanouk, the nominal Cambodian head of
state, announced last Monday he would no longer cooperate with UNTAC, citing
repeated cease-fire violations and attacks on his supporters, who make up one
of the country's four rival factions.
   "The talks were very cordial and very positive," Akashi said in a brief
telephone interview from his hotel in Beijing. "I feel the meeting was very
satisfactory."
   Akashi declined to give details of the talks and would not say whether the
mercurial Sihanouk had withdrawn his latest declaration, but he added: "Prince
Sihanouk has always cooperated with us."
   Akashi said he would first report to U.N. Secretary General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali and then discuss the situation publicly next week after he
returns to Phnom Penh.
   Sihanouk has complained that the communist Khmer Rouge, his former partners
in a three-faction coalition that fought Cambodia's Vietnam- installed
government for more than a decade, have repeatedly violated the October 1991
Paris peace accord on Cambodia.
   Akashi said before leaving Phnom Penh for Beijing that the U.N. was studying
proposals by the Phnom Penh government for taking tougher action against the
Khmer Rouge, which has refused to implement the peace settlement fully.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:27:10 -0500
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Subject:      CAM: Khmer Rouge deny attacking UN peace force

01/02

KHMER ROUGE DENY ATTACKING U.N. PEACE FORCE

    BANGKOK, Jan 2, Reuter - The Khmer Rouge on Saturday denied launching an
artillery barrage on United Nations peacekeepers in northwest Cambodia.
    Foreign media reports of the Khmer Rouge shelling of a village at Svay Leu
in Siem Reap province on Thursday were "deliberately slanderous and
ill-intentioned propaganda," a rebel spokesman said, according to the Khmer
Rouge radio.
    But a spokesman for the U.N Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) said
the Khmer Rouge attack was intentional. It forced the evacuation of 45 U.N.
personnel from the village after a ceasefire negotiation with the radical
Cambodian faction.
    The day-long attack, described as "deliberate shelling of military and
electoral people," was connected with U.N. attempts to register voters for the
May national elections, he said.
    The Khmer Rouge spokesman, however, repeated charges by the faction that
Vietnamese troops still remained in Cambodia and that UNTAC was collaborating
with them.
    "Any incident caused by the Vietnamese and their puppets is blamed on
Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)," he said in the radio statement.
    Thai troops manned checkpoints on the border with Khmer Rouge-held Cambodia
on Friday to shut down trade in line with U.N. sanctions slapped on the
guerrillas after they reneged on an accord to end the country's civil war.
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From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: UN-mandated oil embargo against Khmer Rouge

01/01

Thailand-Cambodia

Copyright, 1993. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A U.N.-mandated oil embargo against Cambodia's
Khmer Rouge guerrillas went into effect Friday but officials doubtful it would
be effective.
   The embargo, approved by the Security Council on Nov. 30, is intended to
pressure the Khmer Rouge to stop undermining U.N. efforts to bring peace to
Cambodia after 13 years of civil war.
   A ban on log exports, imposed by Cambodian leaders to save their nation's
forests from depletion, also went into effect.
   Thailand, which shares a 425-mile border with Cambodia, has said it will
help enforce both bans. But U.N. peacekeepers have been denied access to the 15
percent of the Cambodian countryside that the Khmer Rouge controls, and thus
can not monitor the effectiveness of the bans.
   "The border closure to enforce the oil embargo will not be effective," said
Thanit Traivuth, a member of Thailand's Parliament, in Friday's Bangkok Post.
"The `ant armies' will continue to smuggle goods across the border."
   Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians perished under the Communist rule of the
Khmer Rouge during the 1970s. The Khmer Rouge was chased from power by Vietnam
in 1979, but fought a guerrilla struggle until a peace accord was signed in
October 1991.
   It has repeatedly violated the treaty by refusing to disarm and by harassing
U.N. peacekeepers and denying them access to its territory.
   On Thursday, Khmer Rouge shelling forced 36 U.N. peacekeepers to evacuate
their post from a village in the northwest. U.N. officials said the shelloing
was aimed at keeping their personnel from registering people to vote in May
elections.
   Some 22,000 U.N. troops are in Cambodia to disarm the warring factions and
prepare for the elections.
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From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CRITICISES BANGLADESH

RTw  12/30 2206  U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CRITICISES BANGLADESH

    WASHINGTON, Dec 30, Reuter - U.S. human rights group Asia Watch on Wednesday
strongly criticised Bangladesh's forced repatriation of thousands of Moslem
refugees who have fled neighbouring Burma since late 1991 to escape alleged
military persecution.
    It called for an immediate halt to any further deportations until
international agencies can interview potential returnees and monitor their
safety on return home.
    "By sending back refugees against their will, Bangladesh is violating both
international law and its commitment to ensure that repatriation would be
'safe and voluntary,"' the group said.
    Asia Watch said the United States should review the human rights practices
of Bangladesh and consider suspending military assistance to it if repatriations
of the Burmese Moslems continue.
    The U.S. State Department said last week it deplored the "use of coercion"
by Bangladesh in the repatriation proceedings.
    Asia Watch said United Nations refugee officials had been unable to
interview many refugees in Bangladesh and Burma was refusing to allow U.N.
officials to monitor the situation in Arakan province.
    An estimated 265,000 Moslem refugees have fled Arakan to camps in
Bangladesh in the past 18 months.
    Bangladesh officials said during talks on Wednesday aimed at speeding up
the repatriation of refugees, Burma on agreed to allow at least foreign
journalists to visit Arakan province.
    Although a repatriation process started in September, fewer than 6,000 of
the refugees, known as Rohingyas, have returned. Officials say another 15,000
have agreed to return and are waiting in four transit camps.
    The repatriation programme has been dogged by differences between the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Bangladesh government.
    The UNHCR withdrew its relief operation in camps, alleging it had evidence
that some refugees had been sent back against their will. Bangladesh strongly
refutes the charge.
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