Another eyewitness of Dipeyin assault escapes to Thailand

DVB ( 18 November 2003 )

An eyewitness who was in charge of the safety of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi when NLD supporters were attacked at Dipeyin in upper Burma on 30 May had escaped to Thailand recently.

Ko Khin Oo, a member of NLD Central Youth held a news conference on 17 November at a location on the Thai-Burma border.

He said that he encountered the harassments of more than 300 SPDC-sponsored thugs, members of USDA (Union Solidarity and Development Association) accompanied by the vehicles of police and security forces near Ye-U Township on the day of the attack.

Ko Khin Oo also claimed that the thugs attacked NLD supporters with sharpened bamboo sticks and stones under the floodlight on a dark night.

U Aung Htoo, a member of Dipeyin Inquiry Commission which was formed outside Burma said that the accounts of a new witness would considerably help the efforts to describe a more precise picture of the attack.