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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:49:09 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      UN: International Brief

APn  11/23 0537  International Briefs

Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The international relief group Doctors Without Borders
today identified 11 minorities and nationalities it considers most threatened
by warfare and oppression.
   "Our intention is to highlight current upheavals, to bear witness to
forgotten tragedies and reflect on the principles of humanitarian aid," said
Dr.  Rony Brauman, president of the Brussels-based group.
   The agency singled out these peoples based on its work providing medical
and humanitarian aid in 60 countries:
   --Azerbaijanis and Armenians, who have been battling since 1988 for control
of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.
   --Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina, besieged by Serb and Croat forces.
   --Kurds in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, parts of Iran, Syria and the Soviet
Union. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government has razed 4,000 Kurdish
villages in recent years and organized the "disappearance" of 180,000 Iraqi
Kurds, the relief group said.
   --Mozambicans, a fourth of whom -- over 4 million people -- rely on inter-
     national food aid.
   --Peruvians caught between the Maoist Shining Path rebels and the govern-
     ment's campaign to suppress them.
   --Rohingyas, a Muslim group in Burma persecuted by the military government.
   --Somalis, threatened with starvation by drought and clan warfare.
   --Sri Lankans caught between the Tamil uprising and the government's cam-
     paign to suppress it.
   --The south Sudanese, victims of the government's policy of withholding food
from their region in an attempt to starve out a southern rebellion.
   --Tuaregs, a million of whom wander the Sahara desert in Mali, Niger,
Algeria, Burkina Faso and Libya. Two years of clashes between the Tuaregs and
black populations have made 100,000 Tuaregs refugees.
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:54:27 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: US senators taking Bush's leter to VN president

11/15

U.S. senators taking letter from Bush to Vietnamese president

 By JOHN HAIL
   BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- A delegation of U.S. senators arrived in Bangkok
Sunday enroute to Vietnam to deliver a letter from President Bush to Vietnamese
President Le Duc Anh requesting a final accounting of American servicemen
missing in Indochina.
   The delegation led by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. also planned to investigate
"live sighting" reports of MIAs near Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
   Kerry, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs and
himself a Vietnam war hero, arrived in Bangkok accompanied by fellow committee
members Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Hank Brown, R-Colo.
   Committee spokeswoman Deborah DeYoung said the letter from Bush was unusual.
   "We believe this is the first time a U.S. president has written to a
president of Vietnam since the end of the war," she said. "This is not an empty
exercise. We want to be able to say that Vietnam is cooperating."
   She said Bush's letter links improved U.S. relations with Vietnam to
disclosure of information about the more than 2,000 servicemen still listed as
missing. The senators planned to present the letter to the Vietnamese president
in Hanoi Monday, she said.
   The trip was scheduled as the last factfinding mission of the committee,
which is scheduled to dissolve at the end of this year.
   Resolution of the fates of the missing Americans has been the main stumbling
block preventing diplomatic relations between the two former enemies. The U.S.
has demanded a full accounting of the missing as a condition to lifting an
economic embargo against Vietnam in effect since the war ended in 1975.
   Earlier this year, economically troubled Vietnam handed over to U.S.
authorities 4,100 photographs and other material related to the missing
Americans.
   "The Vietnamese are very meticulous record-keepers," said DeYoung, who
accompanied committee members on their last mission to Vietnam in April. "More
artifacts will be turned over. It is unclear how much more there will be."
   She said committee members expected full cooperation from Vietnamese
authorities in following up on "live sighting" reports in the vicinity of Ho
Chi Minh City.
   The delegation planned to make a one-day visit Thursday to Laos, where
several hundred U.S. servicemen, mostly airmen, are listed as missing.
   Saturday, the senators were scheduled to fly to Hong Kong to interview some
of the 24,000 Vietnamese boat people detained there. Many of the "live
sighting" reports were made by boat people who claimed to have first-hand
knowledge of Americans held in Vietnam.
   The senators were also scheduled to meet with Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten
before flying back to the United States next Sunday.
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:23:04 PST
From:         "(Coban Tun)" <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      BANGLADESH RUSHES TROOPS TO BURMESE REFUGEE CAMPS

RTw  11/11 0523  BANGLADESH RUSHES TROOPS TO BURMESE REFUGEE CAMPS

    DHAKA, Nov 11, Reuter - Bangladeshi soldiers joined police on Wednesday in
a hunt for guerrillas blamed by the government for inciting Monday's clashes at
two refugee camps in which at least eight people died.
    Camp officials said the hunt was ordered at Shailerdeba and Dhechuapalong
camps, where tension among Burmese Moslem refugees was high after the
shooting.
    "We firmly believe armed terrorists mingling with the refugees were
responsible for starting the fighting," Lokman Hakim, a magistrate, told
reporters.
    He was referring to Burmese Moslem guerrilla groups seeking an independent
homeland in west Burma's Arakan state bordering Bangladesh.
    An estimated 300,000 Burmese Moslems have fled to Bangladesh since early
last year, alleging widespread military persecution in Arakan.
    Authorities sent extra police to the two camps on Tuesday after nearly
5,000
refugees, known as Rohingyas, attended the funeral of those killed in battles
with police.
    Monday's violence began after thousands of Rohingyas mobbed a relief centre
at Shailerdeba, near Cox's Bazar, demanding milk. They were told only children
could have it.
    As angry refugees attacked the centre, police opened fire. Officials said
two people were killed and five injured.
    Police said six people were killed and up to 25 injured when police clashed
later with Burmese rebels hiding among refugees at Dhechuapalong camp.
    They said unidentified camp inmates responded by firing dozens of shots at
police but no one was hurt. There was no immediate explanation for the lack of
police casualties.
    Relief officials said at least 26 Rohingyas had been killed since early
this year in clashes with police or in fighting between rival groups.
    Repatriation of the Rohingyas, whose presence in impoverished Bangladesh
has sparked tension with local residents, was to have started in May under an
agreement between the two governments.
    It was rescheduled for September but only 216 have returned home so far.
Many refuse to go back unless the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees oversees the repatriation, something Rangoon refuses to allow.
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Editor: Chan Tran
Address: PO Box 7826, San Jose, CA 95150, USA
Phone: (408) 226-2261
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:36:05 PST
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From:         "(Vietnam Insight)" <vinsight@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      VI: VN-CAMBODIA

1991 US Task Forces Report on f VN Troops in Cambodia

This information is posted by the request of some netters but also give
others insight into Hanoi's continued involvement in Cambodia

Excerpt from the April 8 and 15, 1991 reports of the US Task Forces on
Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.


.....The current offensive is the result of close high level
coordination between Hanoi and Phnom Penh and several months of build-up
and preparation. The final phase of the Vietnamese and Cambodia build-up
began in January 1991 (Hanoi claimed to have withdraw all of its troops
from Cambodia in September 1989), when a large number of Vietnamese
forces began deploying to western Cambodia....

The troops movement from the Vietnamese border area was so massive, and
the presence of non-Cambodian forces, albeit in PCAF uniforms, so clear,
that Phnom Penhh hailed the special contribution of "troops from the
Kompong Chan Province" (on the Vietnamese border)....

Ultimately, some 26,000 PAVN (People Army of Vietnam) troops were
concentrated in the western and northwestern provinces of Cambodia in
February.....

Final details of this escalation were coordinated in late-Feb. during
the visit of Le Duc Anh, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Defense
Minister, to Phnom Penh. Politburo-level political-military delegations
continued to shuttle between Phnom Penh and Hanoi during March 1991...

The Vietnamese opened a new intelligence school near Phnom Penh in
March-April 1991 ...

These activities coincide with the continued "Vietnamization" of
Cambodia. According to Resistance and Thai sources, the overall size of
the PAVN permanent-static deployment (that is, garrisons in Cambodia,
excluding the forces brought from across the border for specific
operations or temporary deployment) is about 57,000-60,000 troops...

Moreover, as of early 1991, there were about 1.3 million Vietnamese
settlers in Cambodia...constituting about 20% of Cambodia's population
(this figure is recently confirmed by the United Nations to be roughly 2
million)....


--
Vietnam Insight (vinsight@netcom.com)
Chan Tran, editor
From: GSUSSMAN%EMERSON.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Cultural imperialism
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:26:00 GMT
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X-Original-To:  seasia-l@msu.edu, GSUSSMAN

Regarding Joseph Stimpfl's claims that it is a matter of cultural imperialism
to express one's horror at the human rights violations of other countries, in
the case under discussion in our respective comments dealing with Singapore, I
find no human value.  Were this the case, it would be perfectly right for
nation states to carry the worst forms of barbarism without fear of censure or
response.  To cite the obvious, Hitler, who in fact, escaped retaliatory respon-
ses to his gross practices in the 30s, would welcome such views.  I don't mean
to imply that Stimpfl shares values with such reactionary leaders, but only
that his attempt to sit on the fence is indefensible.  Martin Niemoller, you
may recall, the Protestant cleric dragged off to the concentration camps under t
he Nazis, wrote that his failure to condemn the actions of the Nazis while
communists, socialists, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and opposition Catholic
clergy were being dragged off, ultimately condemned him to the same fate.
Cultural imperialism is not the imposition of human rights values but the
imposition of forms of power that dehumanizes its victims.

For those interested in substantiation of the record of Singapore in this regard
, the last 10 years of the Far Eastern Economic Review (Index) is a good place
to start.  Move on to the studies of human rights monitoring groups after that
(Amnesty Int'l, etc.). GS
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:52:12 -0500
From:         gustilo@POBOX.UPENN.EDU
Subject:      help request

>>greetings,

>> I am forwarding this request to the group in the hope that it can provide
>>>>greater assistance than I can.

>>thanks


To whom it may concern:

i would like to know how i can contact the author of this article
(preferrably via email).  If that info is not available, how can i
contact Andrew Garton of the Pegasus Networks who forwarded the
article.

many thanks in advance.

Ben Bongalon
bongalon@tcad05.intel.com

part of original article follows:

|> From: Andrew Garton - Pegasus Networks Support
|>
|>
|>
|>                      NGO Conference Explores Email
|>
|>                           by Roberto Verzola
|>               Interdoc Coordinator, Asia-Pacific Region
|>
|>
|>      Some 53 representatives from 36 non-government organizations
|> (NGOs) in the Asia-Pacific region gathered recently in Manila, to
|> discuss email and other forms of electronic networking.
|>
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:11:06 PST
From:         "(Coban Tun)" <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      AIDS EXPERT PREDICTS DISASTER IN INDIA

RTw  11/10 0625  AIDS EXPERT PREDICTS DISASTER IN INDIA

    By Seema Guha
    NEW DELHI, Nov 10, Reuter - Nearly three million Indians will be infected
by
the HIV virus by 1996 and 179,000 will suffer from full-blown AIDS, an expert
warned on Tuesday.
    Unless the disease is confronted on a war footing, Asia will overtake
sub-Saharan Africa as having the world's largest number of HIV-infected people,
said John Dwyer, president of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific.
    "The biggest problem in Asia is that governments remain complacent and
refuse to look ahead at the potentially dangerous scourge which could wipe out
nearly two million people in the region by the year 2000," Dwyer told Reuters
in an interview.
    India was especially vulnerable because government apathy and social mores
made it difficult to promote AIDS awareness, said Dwyer, professor of medicine
at the University of South Wales.
    He is attending the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the
Pacific.
    The AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific, based in Sydney, is sponsoring
the week-long Delhi conference with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Some
2,000 delegates from around the region are attending.
    On Sunday, the director of WHO's global AIDS programme said that more than
1.5 million men, women and children in Asia and the Pacific had already been
infected with the HIV virus, the precursor of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS).
    Unprotected sexual intercourse with multiple partners was the most common
way of contracting the disease in this region, as it was elsewhere in the
world, Dr Michael Merson said.
    The World Bank had given India $95 million to combat AIDS but so far very
little had been achieved, Dwyer said on Tuesday.
    AIDS workers from the northeastern state of Manipur shocked delegates by
saying that victims in their state were kept behind bars with common
prisoners.
    Manipur, which borders Burma, has 30,000 heroin addicts. The AIDS virus
there was most commonly transmitted through shared needles, the delegates
said.
    In a study of 2,322 drug users in the state, none had contracted the AIDS
virus between 1986 and 1989. But blood samples taken between October 1989 and
June 1990 showed 54 per cent were infected.
     AIDS was spreading just as rapidly in the red light districts of Bombay,
Dwyer said.
    In random blood testing of Bombay prostitutes in 1991, nearly 40 per cent
were found to be HIV positive, compared to just two per cent in 1988/89, he
said.
    Dwyer said Indians were reluctant to talk about sex and that made the task
of health workers more difficult. "Indians must realise that their culture
will not disappear if people speak openly about sex."
    In Thailand, the government had succeeded in bringing AIDS out of the
closet and popularising the use of condoms.
    "I do not see this happening in India," Dywer said.
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From: MAYOT09@SNYNEWVM.BITNET (Henry M.)
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Subject: Re: Just Wondering.......
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:52:22 GMT
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              13 Nov 1992 12:02:38 -0700 from <mmaiseh@CS.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi there,

   There are students from Malaysia, Singapore Thailand and Philipine.
Tell me more about yourself.  Hope to hear from you again.

Sarawakian...
Henry.
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:54:08 -0330
From:         sasamoah@ENGR.MUN.CA
Subject:      Adresses wanted.

        Could someone send the e-mail address of the following US schools.
    University of Oklahoma
    Texas A & M University

  My id is sasamoah @engr.engr.mun.ca
                                        thanks
                                                SASAMOAH
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:30:09 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Police want to freeze Song's assets

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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:11:29+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol>
Subject: Bangkok Post Nov 21: Police wants to freeze Song's assets.

ECONOMIC Crime Suppression Division Commander Pol Maj-Gen Vatin
Khamsongsri said yesterday that he would like the Securities and
Exchange Commission to freeze the liquid assets of Song
Wacharasriroj.

He said Mr Song's deposits at financial institutes including banks
should be frozen because these are considered an important
evidence in the case.

Mr Song on Wednesday gave himself up to the police and bailed
himself out after being accused of violating both the Securities
and Stock Exchange Act and Criminal Code's Section 83.

Maj-Gen Vatin told reporters after questioning some SEC officials
who acted as witnesses in the case that the case should be
completed within one month.

He said the evidence is quite strong.

Maj-Gen Vatin, who came to the SEC office with 10 other police
officers, said Central Investigation Bureau Commissioner Pol
Lt-Gen Thanoo Homhual also met his team to discuss the case.

He said the police have not yet frozen Mr Song's assets as such an
action should be decided on by the SEC first.

Asked if any people other than Mr Song and his 10 collaborators
will face legal action, he said no, adding that the brokers
questioned earlier were not involved in the case.

He also denied that there was political influence to block the
case.
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:44:41 EST
From:         "(CHON OOI)" <cyooi@MTU.EDU>
Subject:      Attn : Pang, Henry (Malaysian Students Association)

Hi Pang, Henry.

	I need your e-maill address in order to respond your letter. Please send it to
 me as soon as possible thank you !


President MASA-MTU
Chon Yean Ooi

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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:26:56 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Senator disturbed by report of coming normalization

USA TODAY Update
Nov. 19, 1992

SMITH DISTURBED BY REPORTS:
   Angered by talk of rapid restoration of ties with Vietnam, the
leading Republican on a Senate investigative panel vowed Wednesday
to hold firm for a full accounting of missing U.S. servicemen.
Sen. Robert Smith, R-N.H., vice chairman of the Senate Committee
on POW:MIA Affairs, says he is disturbed by reports the U.S. is
"on a fast track" to normalize relations and lift a trade embargo.
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:47:48 +1100
From:         lulu@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU
Subject:      PH:Lawmakers pursue Sabah claim

18NOV92 PHILIPPINES: PHILIPPINE LAWMAKERS TELL RAMOS TO PURSUE SABAH.
      15:01 GMT [REUTR] R49211182723
 MANILA, Nov 18, Reuter - Thirty-two Philippine legislators led by the
speaker of congress urged President Fidel Ramos on Wednesday to take a
strong stand in pursuing Manila's territorial claim to Sabah, Malaysia. The
call appeared to run counter to statements by Foreign Secretary Roberto
Romulo that the administration was not keen on actively pursuing the claim,
which has strained relations between Manila and Kuala Lumpur for three
decades. The proposal was embodied in a resolution filed in the House of
Representatives by Speaker Jose de Venecia, a close ally of Ramos, and 31
other congressmen. The resolution calls for the creation of a bipartisan
legislative-executive committee to draft "the final Philippine position on
the Sabah claim, including the various modes of pursuing the claim, the
venue and schedule for implementation." "It is now time that the government
considers a firmer and stronger policy on Sabah with due regard to our
territorial integrity and national interest consistent with the
requirements of regional harmony and cooperation," the resolution adds. The
house foreign affairs committee will study the resolution and decide
whether or not to recommend it to the entire chamber for approval. "The
sentiment of the committee is to eventually pursue the claim," congressman
Jaime Lopez, its chairman, told reporters. Manila officially laid claim to
Sabah, the former British North Borneo, in 1962 saying it historically
belonged to the Filipino Sultan of Sulu. Kuala Lumpur has rejected the
claim and said the Sulu sultanate had ceded its rights to the territory.
Romulo told Malaysian officials on a visit to Kuala Lumpur in September
that the Ramos administration would not pursue the claim but could not drop
it outright without congress approval. (c) Reuters Limited
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Lulu Turner
Dept of Political and Social Change
Research School of Pacific Studies
The Australian National University
GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601
Tel: (06) 249 0173
Fax: (06) 257 1893
E-mail (Internet) lulu@coombs.anu.edu.au
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