From: sunder@bach.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder)
Subject: India - Maoists strike in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing at the
              University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 17:24:58 GMT

Source : UPI
Date	: Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:18:42 CDT
Country	: India

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Subject: Burmese dissidents set up office in Indian capital

	NEW DELHI, India  -- Burmeses dissidents, forming a Govt.-in-exile, set
up an office in New Delhi after the Indian government relented in its
opposition to the move, officials said Monday.

	India also dropped its objections to the readmission of Burma, which
is ruled by a military junta, to the Non-Aligned Movement.

	India had prevented the Burmese dissidents from setting up an office
in New Delhi because it did not want to be seen as doing what it had
always asked other South Asian nations not to do -- interfere in the
internal affairs of a neighbor.

	It tried to block Burma's readmission to the Non-Aligned Movement on
the grounds that the decision to rejoin had been made by a regime whose
legitimacy was under challenge.

	India's change of heart helped Burma gain readmission Sunday to the
Non-Aligned Movement, which it left in 1979.

	The Burmese government-in-exile was set up with its headquarters
along the Burma-Thailand border by the National League for Democracy
(NLD) after the country's dictatorship refused to honor the results of
the May 1990 national election.

	The NLD won a landslide victory in the election, but its chairwoman,
Aung San Suu Kyi -- a Nobel Peace laureate, has remained under house arrest in 
Rangoon since July 1989.

	The New Delhi office of the government-in-exile is headed by Tint
Swe, a NLD member of parliament.

	Many of the lawmakers elected in 1990 have been arrested,
disqualified or forced to flee Burma.

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Subject: Indian Maoists blow up house of minister, kill 7 troops

	NEW DELHI, India  -- Underground Maoist guerrillas in southern
India blew up the home of a state minister and ambushed and killed seven
paramilitary troops, Indian news reports said Monday.

	The latest attacks occurred Sunday night and followed the guerrilla
slaying of three relatives of another state minister and the
assassination of a prominent state politician of India's governing
Congress party.

	The Maoists have been waging a violent campaign in the state of
Andhra Pradesh in support of landless peasants. Scores of people have
been slain by them in recent years.

	In the latest violence, members of the outlawed People's War Group
waited in ambush for a paramilitary patrol and then detonated a mine to
explode the van in which the troops were traveling, the government's
All-India Radio said. One officer of the Border Security Force was among
those reported killed.

	In a separate attack, 20 members of the same group raided the home of
a minister in Andhra Pradesh, ordered all his relatives out and then
blew up the house, the Press Trust of India news agency said. The
minister was not at home at the time of the raid and no one was reported
injured.
	A week ago, the Maoists ambushed another state minister's car and
sprayed automatic gunfire, killing the official's son, brother, uncle
and bodyguard. The same day, they shot and killed a Congress Party
politician.

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