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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:30:05 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Cambodia partition

01/22

Cambodia-UN

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

By SHEILA McNULTY
 Associated Press Writer
   PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia may have to be partitioned if
elections opposed by the Khmer Rouge are to proceed this year as planned, two
architects of Cambodia's shaky peace plan said today.
   The Khmer Rouge has tried to undermine the election, which is provided for
in the U.N.-sponsored peace plan that they and Cambodia's three other warring
factions signed in October 1991, ending 13 years of civil war.
   Ten percent of the population lives in the one-fifth of the country under
Khmer Rouge control.
   Peacemakers today said partition may be the only way to break the impasse.
   "Partitioning is something nobody wants but now, however, time is running
short," said Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas.
   Alatas and Foreign Minister Gareth Evans of Australia spoke with reporters
after arriving for talks with U.N. officials and Cambodian leaders.
   Wednesday is the last day for the Khmer Rouge to register its political
party to contest the election. On Thursday, the president of the Khmer Rouge,
Khieu Samphan, told Alatas the rebels will boycott the polls.
   Evans said Lt. Gen. John Sanderson, the U.N. military commander in Cambodia,
told him the Khmer Rouge is not able to substantially disrupt the election
campaign, let alone resume a full-scale civil war.
   Under three years of Khmer Rouge rule, an estimated 1 million people were
executed, killed in unrest or died of famine as the fanatically Marxist group
tried to convert the country into an agrarian commune.
   The Khmer Rouge was forced out when Vietnam invaded in late 1978. The
invasion set off 13 years of civil war, in which the Khmer Rouge was loosely
allied with two non-Communist factions against the Vietnam-installed government.
   The Khmer Rouge has repeatedly violated the 1991 peace accord by refusing to
disarm and confronting U.N. peacekeepers sent to guide the country through
elections and oversee the disarmament.
   Since Monday, Khmer Rouge guerrillas have detained 12 U.N. personnel in
Pailin, the main guerrilla headquarters in western Cambodia. The peacekeepers
have been told they cannot leave except to return to Phnom Penh.
   Alatas said the U.N. Security Council wants the election held in May because
it can't afford to delay it any longer. The U.N. peacekeeping operation of
22,000 peacekeepers in Cambodia is the world body's most expensive ever, and by
initial estimates was to cost $1.8 billion.
   The accord that set up the peacekeeping operation also called for the
repatriation of Cambodians in refugee camps in Thailand. Site 8, which the
Khmer Rouge used to try to convince the world it had embraced democracy, was
closed today and the last refugees were sent home.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:58:34 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: French president to visit Cambodia

01/18

 FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND TO VISIT CAMBODIA

PARIS (JAN. 18) DPA - French President Francois Mitterrand is to visit Cambodia
February 11 and 12, it was announced Monday after a meeting in Paris between
French and Cambodian foreign ministers Roland Dumas and Hor Nam Hong.
   Mitterrand is to go to Phnom Penh directly after his planned visit to
Vietnam, the annoucement said.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:26:29 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Is There a "List" for E. Asia?
              25 Jan 1993 21:43:59 -0700 from <wmashud@DIANA.CAIR.DU.EDU>

On Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:43:59 -0700 WIDJAJA S. MASHUD said:
>Well, I used to subscribe to AJBS-L or the Association of
>Japanese Business Studies List, it's a rather quiet list.
>I can't remember the email address off hand, does anybody
>else know about it? I think it was out of University of
>North Carolina. Hope this helps.
>
AJBS-L@NCSUVM

  TWUNIV-L@TWNMOE10 Taiwan Scholars and students list
  EMEDCH-L@USCVM Medieval China list
  CNDUB-L@UBVM global list for China

     I didn't find any for Korea; Japan has quite a few.  Maybe the
original poster could narrow their request

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Subject:      Thai military bank opens office in Rangoon, Burma

01/22 0646  THAI MILITARY BANK OPENS OFFICE IN RANGOON, BURMA

RANGOON (JAN. 22) DPA - The Thai Military Bank of Bangkok, the first foreign
bank to set up business in Burma in 30 years, Friday opened up a representative
office in central Rangoon with the blessings of the central bank of Burma.
   "It is my sincere hope that the opening of this representative office will
further strengthen the friendship and economic cooperation between our two
countries," deputy governor certral bank of Burma U Kyaw Kyaw Maung said at
the opening ceremony.
   TMB president Thanong Bidaya said the move was in line with Burma's open-door
economic policy to attract investors to Burma, a country, he said, endowed with
"plentiful natural resources and a high potential for economic growth".
   He said TMB has already set up a branch in Hong Kong and offices in Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia would open up in the next few months.
   "We shall study the business environment in Burma in the comingfew months and
if conditions are favourable, our representive office will expand into a fully
operational branch bank," he said.
   In 1990, Burmese military rulers abolished the former state monopoly of the
banking sector and opened it up for participation by private enterprise, both
Burmese and foreign.
   Burma had a strong private banking sector in the 1950s, with 14 Burmese and
10 foreign banks playing an active role in the economy. All these banks were
nationalised in 1962.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:05:33 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: UN assessment of Cambodian mission

01/25

U.N. PEACEKEEPING CHIEF MARRACK GOULDING TO REVIEW ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (JAN. 25) UPI - U.N. Undersecretary General for
Peacekeeping Marrack Goulding arrived in Cambodia Monday to assess the largest
peace mission in U.N. history, a spokesman said.
   "He is here for a technical visit, to meet component heads and review the
work" of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia, said UNTAC spokesman Eric
Falt.
   "It's a regular visit. There are 13 peacekeeping operations and he is in
charge of all of them and it's good to see on the ground what is going on," he
said.
   Goulding is to spend two days in Phnom Penh before flying to Beijing, where
Cambodian leaders will discuss plans for the holding of general elections
without the radical Khmer Rouge faction.
   The guerrilla group, whose brutal regime was ousted from power by invading
Vietnamese troops in 1979, last June refused to comply with a peace accord it
signed with the three other factions in Paris in October 1991.
   The U.N. Security Council on Dec. 1 imposed sanctions on the Khmer Rouge to
force it to honor the Paris accord. The Maoist-inspired group has since
resorted to kidnaping UNTAC personnel.
   Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan on Thursday reiterated his refusal to
rejoin the peace process or take part in the elections, scheduled for April or
May.
   Goulding's trip follows visits by Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas,
co-chairman of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia, and his
Australian counterpart, Gareth Evans, aimed at breaking the deadlock in the
U.N.  peace process.
   With 22,000 personnel and a budget of almost $3 billion, the peacekeeping
operation is the largest ever in U.N. history.
   It is Goulding's second visit to Cambodia since he was appointed head of all
U.N. peacekeeping operations one year ago. He spent four days in the country
last June.
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:35:41 CST
From:         joseph stimpfl <jstimpfl@UNLINFO.UNL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What use is SEASIA-L?
              GEOGRAPHY & GEOLOGY," at Jan 20, 93 5:15 pm

Eliot Parker is to be commended for maintaining this list (and his
poise).  Although I may not have time or interest to read all postings
I find what I do read invaluable and unavailable to me in any other
timely source.  Please keep up the good work.

Joseph Stimpfl
University of Nebraska
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:35:59 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Cambodian refugee camp closed

01/22

Cambodia Refugees

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

By JEFF WIDENER
 Associated Press Writer
   SITE 8 REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) -- Site 8, which Cambodia's Khmer Rouge
presented as a model of democracy before trying to force its residents back to
dangerous areas of Cambodia, was closed today.
   During a closing ceremony, balloons and doves were released into bright
skies and a Buddhist monk blessed the last group of 177 refugees as they
boarded U.N. buses.
   With Site 8 closed, only two Cambodian refugee camps remain in Thailand.
   The United Nations has been closing refugee camps since it began
repatriating Cambodians last March under the terms of a peace accord between
Cambodia's government and three guerrilla groups.
   Other Khmer Rouge-controlled camps were closed earlier. More than 258,000 of
the border's 370,000 refugees have gone back, although the country is still in
turmoil because the Communist Khmer Rouge is violating the peace accord and
refusing to disarm.
   Site 8 is about 160 miles east of Bangkok and separated from Cambodia, 1.5
miles away, by sheer cliffs.
   It opened in 1985 to house some of the tens of thousands of people under
Khmer Rouge control who were driven into Thailand during a withering Vietnamese
offensive. Vietnam installed the Cambodian government after driving the Khmer
Rouge out of power in 1978.
   Site 8 was the first Khmer Rouge-controlled camp into which U.N. aid
officials were permitted. The Khmer Rouge ran it as a "showcase" camp, a
demonstration to the world that the group had abandoned the brutality of its
rule of Cambodia in the 1970s -- when up to 1 million people died in slave
labor camps, in purges and from disease and starvation.
   Some aid officials called Site 8 the most democratic and least corrupt camp
on the Thai-Cambodian border. Other refugee camps were run by two non-Communist
guerrilla groups that were allied with the Khmer Rouge against the government.
   But in late 1991, the Khmer Rouge replaced the civilian leadership of Site 8
and sent soldiers into the camp in apparent preparation to force the 43,000
residents to resettle in dangerous guerrilla-controlled areas inside Cambodia.
Strong international protests forced the group to abandon the plan.
   U.N. officials say the Khmer Rouge did not interfere with the U.N.
repatriation process after it began.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:18:40 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH;MM: Burmese face red tape

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 23:01:34+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
Subject: Bangkok Post Jan 26: Burmese students, monks face red tape


A LARGE number of Burmese Buddhist monks and students who have
been accepted for resettlement in third countries are still
stranded in Thailand because the Interior Ministry has refused to
issue them security clearances.

Officials working with displaced persons said yesterday that the
stranded Burmese include several cases already cleared by the US
State Department and who have sponsors ready to accept them.

Officials from the US State Department met their Thai counterparts
at the Interior Ministry to solve the problem, but to date there
has been no progress, the officials said.

A total of 250 Burmese were accepted for resettlement in the US
last year.

But by the end of the year, only 55 were actually resettled and 79
more cases cleared.

The officials said that other third countries which had shown
readiness to accept Burmese refugees for resettlement are also
facing the same problem from the ministry.

The ministry has stopped issuing security clearances to Burmese
refugees since November, which coincided with the expiry of a
deadline for 520 Burmese students to be interned in a camp in Pak
Tho District of Ratchaburi Province or face arrest.

Some of the refugees who have been accepted for resettlement in
third countries but are still stranded have voiced scepticism
towards a recent remark by Interior Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
that arrested students can choose to be2remanded in the camp or at
the immigration detention centre until they are sent to third
countries.

"When Thailand does not want us, it should let us leave the
country," one refugee said, apparently, reflecting the mood of his
colleagues.

Several international NGOs which have been assisting Burmese
students are considering submitting an appeal to His Majesty the
King for his intervention to help the stranded refugees leave the
country.

Several Burmese students who refuse to be interned are now
suffering because their financial and medical assistance from the
United Nations has been suspended at the request of the Thai
Government, said a Burmese refugee source.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:17:37 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Govt to enforce helmet law

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 23:00:04+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
Subject: Bangkok Post Jan 26: Govt to enforce helmet law on Feb 1

INTERIOR Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh yesterday told ministerial
officials that they must strictly enforce the law requiring
motorcyclists to wear crash helmets starting on February 1.

Ministerial sources said that Gen Chavalit, who gave motorcyclists
a 45-day reprieve after protests from motorcycle taxis, told a
meeting of ministry officials that they must enforce the law
strictly when the reprieve ends on the first of next month.

In other developments, Damri Rinwong, who led motorcycle protests
late last year, said yesterday that motorcyclists would stage a
peaceful rally at Sanam Luang on Sunday afternoon.

He asked for the Interior Minister to facilitate the rally and to
also come and meet the protesters who want the law revoked.

Mr Damri said that accidents were not caused by not wearing crash
helmets but by sub-standard roads and poor motorists.

The speed for cars, the self-style activist said, should be
reduced further to prevent accidents.

He said that protesters will not carry any weapons on Sunday and
the Interior Minister should not order the police to prevent the
rally from being staged.

Meanwhile, Gen Chavalit said yesterday that he has ordered the
Local Administration Department to study and check assets and
household tax payments in Chon Buri Province.

Chon Buri governor Yuvarath Kamolvech recently claimed that many
big companies in the province, including those under a former
prime minister, have been evading taxes to the tune of thousands
of million of baht.

Gen Chavalit, according to sources, questioned why the claim has
surfaced when it did, and why other provinces were not reporting
such incidents too.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:01:40 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Election possibility

01/18

UNTAC CHIEF AKASHI SAYS ELECTION DOOR STILL OPEN ...

JAKARTA (JAN. 18) DPA - Chief of the United Nations Transitionary Authority in
Cambodia (UNTAC), Yasushi Akashi, said in Jakarta Monday that there were no
plans to scrap the dialogue aimed at persuading the Khmer Rouge faction to take
part in May general elections.
   "We have no plan to shut the door to the Khmer Rouge", Akashi told a press
conference after a meeting with Indonesian President Suharto.
   He said UNTAC had no plan to delay the election but that some modalities
still had to be studied by the U.N. Security Council.
   Akashi described efforts to restore peace and stability in Cambodia as the
largest and most expensive of U.N. peacekeeping operations so far, with some
100 million U.S. dollars monthly being allocated to UNTAC operational costs.
By the end of the 15-month mission the total cost would amount to 1.5 billion
dollars.
   Akashi flew to Jakarta from Bangkok Sunday to discuss efforts by Indonesian
foreign minister Ali Alatas who is expected to negotiate during talks with
Cambodian leaders in Beijing, Bangkok and Phnom Penh starting Wednesday.
   Ali will meet Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Chinese government officials in
Beijing and fly onto Bangkok to talk with Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan,
Norodom Ranaridh of the Sihanoukist FUNCINPEC, Son Sann of the nationalist
KPNLF and Thai foreign minister Prasong Soonsiri before talking in Phnom Penh
with Hun Sen of the Vietnam-backed regime, Akashi and officials related to
Cambodia peace process.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:29:50 EST
From:         mulliner@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject:      RE: ORGANIZED CRIME/GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

                   Ohio University Electronic Communication


   Date:  26-Jan-1993 07:20pm EST

     To:  Southeast Asia Listers               ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )

   From:  Kent Mulliner                              Dept:  Library
          MULLINER                                 Tel No:  614-593-2707

Subject:  RE: ORGANIZED CRIME/GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION


        Betraying my age, Allen Ginsberg (the legendary beatnik
poet) had a bibliography on the CIA and the drug trade in
THE LAST WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, sadly dated now but useful for
background.

        More recent, but still dated, is my favorite, THE
CRIMES OF PATRIOTS by Jonathan Kwitny published in hardback
by W.W. Nortan and in Paper by Simon & Schuster Touchstone,
1987 for the former and 1988 for the latter.  It carrys
the sub-title A TRUE TALE OF DOPE, DIRTY MONEY, AND
THE CIA.  Includes good stuff on Australia (being the
story of Nugan Hand Bank there) and the Philippines
as well as more familiar stories like Thailand.  Excellent
and scarey for drawing together a lot of apparently
disparate elements and events (such as Brunei Contra
payment).
        K. Mulliner, Ohio University Libraries



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From:         Barney Hope -- Ctr for Int'l Studies <BHOPE@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU>
Subject:      Is There a "List" for E. Asia?

Manjit Bhatia would like to know if there is a list-serve serevice for East
Asia.  Good question.  Does anyone know?

Barney Hope         BHOPE@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
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From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burma-China Arms transfer

24th JANUARY 1993

BURMA-CHINA ARMS TRANSFER AND AMMUNITION FACTORY

FROM: SOUTH EAST ASIAN INFORMATION NETWORK
      BURMA DESK

In January 1993, a meeting was held between SLORC military
officials and PRC military officials in the Sino-Burma border
town of Muse. The meeting was initiated by the SLORC Deputy
Military Attache to the PRC and the head of the PRC Military
Ordnance Unit 30, Cheng Du, Sichuan Province. The objective of
the meeting was to confirm arrangements to supply SLORC with arms
and ammunition.

SLORC representatives at the meeting were Deputy Commander of
SLORC's northeast command Col Yae Myint, Lt Col Than Tin from the
military attache's office in the PRC, Lt.Col Kyaw Thein from the
war office intelligence unit, and Major Tin Yu of 542 regiment.

It has been confirmed by reliable border sources that 308 trucks
equipped with spare parts for various military equipment, heavy
weaponry and various types of ammunition were delivered to SLORC
between January 10th - 13th this year.  Sources also state that
this military equipment was for the Thai Burmese border.

The contents of the trucks are as follows:

100, 122mm and 130mm artillery shells complete with transporters.
large numbers of 40mm bazooka's 1969 model
30 trucks equipped with 12 barrel, 130mm M-cruise rockets
numbers of 130mm,75mm,82mm and 81mm shells

It was also revealed that in 1991 the PRC gave to SLORC a gift of
60 anti-personal tank carriers (76 APC), and in 1992 SLORC then
purchased 100 of these tank carriers of which the spare parts
were also included in the recent border transaction.

According to information obtained regarding the meeting, PRC will
also supply 57mm automatic artillery, and 20 complete sets of
130mm automatic artillery.

Reliable sources also confirmed that in 1991 in the Burmese town
of Mergwi, an agreement was reached between the previous SLORC
leader Saw Maung and the PRC to establish a joint venture between
the two parties to establish a factory to produce M21,M22, and
M23 machine guns.

Sometime after this meeting occurred the PRC sent Chinese
engineers from the Yunnan Province to Mergwi to help establish
this new joint venture. It is now believed that this factory will
be in full production by the end of 1993. The factory will also
be producing ammunition, and some of the equipment transported
across the border in January will be used to further the venture.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:53:09 -0700
From:         "WIDJAJA S. MASHUD" <wmashud@DIANA.CAIR.DU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Burma-China Arms transfer
              93 10:29:31 am

Just to avoid any confusion. The article said that China transferred
APC's to Burma's SLORC. As far as I know APC's are armored personnel
carriers and not anti-tank personal carrier. So, APC's usually are
used to carry infantrymen in to battle and have cannons in the
20 to 30 mm range for infantry support.

Widjaja Mashud
GSIS
U. of Denver
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:03:00 +8
From:         ISROBERT@CPHKVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: NEWS/VN: Hongkong shutdown refugee camp

The refugee camp that was shut down was the Shek Kong camp. This was
situated on an old RAF airfield in the New Territories.
I recently saw a figure of around 2500 as the number of refugees who have
been screen-in as genuine political refugees and not economic migrants.
robert - hong kong
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