BANGKOK, July 4 Kyodo sum of two ...

BANGKOK, July 4 Kyodo

sum of two units fleeing members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) testified Friday before a Senate committee forward a violent clash in May in northern Myanmar between supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-junta demonstrators.

Khin Zaw, 50 and Wunna Maung, 26 submitted their individual written testimonies to the chairman of the standing foreign relations committee, Kraisak Choonhavan, an aide to Kraisak said.

In the statements, they said the May 30 riots were planned in advance at members of the Union Solidarity progression in a continuously ascending gradation Association, a political organization supporting Myanmar's military government

Khin Zaw said he saw near 3,000 assailants armed with iron bars, slender sticks bamboo sticks and wooden bats attack an NLD attendance of about 15 cars and 20 motorcycles and any 1,000 Kyee villagers assembled to welcome the convoy

''I saw with my be in possession of eyes the attackers striking down the victims...and stabbing viciously with pointed iron slender sticks Truly, it was a murderous attack. The beating was done until the victims died,'' Khin Zaw said in his affidavit.

''It appeared that the attackers were systematically trained. They mainly aimed and struck onward the head,'' Khin Zaw said.

Wunna Maung said he saw the attackers use slender stems to smash into Suu Kyi's car and that she barely escaped injury because she did not emanate from the vehicle, which was later able to spe off

''Daw (Mrs) Suu escaped beating, because she did not memorize out of the car. If she did, the attackers would have beaten her to death, because the attackers were totally in liquor They did not look like they were intoxicated on liquor but they direct the eyeed as if they were high in succession drugs,'' Wunna Maung said in his affidavit.

Wunna Maung said he saw that NLD vice chairman Tin Oo who was traveling in another vehicle, supported a head wound.

''I saw them behaving greatest in number inhumanly...From my mind, I still cannot achieve rid of the sight of commonalty covered in blood, being beaten mercilessly and inhumanly,'' he said.

The junta detained Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and other NLD leaders following the clash.

The sum of two units eyewitnesses had earlier planned for an evening pres meeting for consultation at a foreign correspondents' fraternity in Bangkok, but it was canceled for security relate tos the club said in a notice to its members.

Sunai Phasuk, a spokesman of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and progress to maturity (FORUM-ASIA), said the two witnesses rushed to the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) office in Bangkok to apply for refugee status after the testimonies at the parliament as they were afraid of being arrested according to Thai police because they inserted the kingdom without proper documents.

UNHCR officers were not available for comment

Thai authorities decided Friday not to arrest the sum of two units NLD members by taking into account that they were in a proces seeking the UNHCR's individuals of concern status, but they must neither give any pres interviews nor become involved in any political activities during the asylum in Thailand, a senior Foreign Ministry official said.

Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung said last month in Phnom Penh that the May 30 scuffle left four people dead and 48 injured, moreover he denied allegations that the Myanmar military dominion engineered the riots.

''If it was a stratagem by the government or soldiers as alleged, there were to be more deaths, nobody could escape that,'' Win Aung said, claiming Suu Kyi was rescu through police and moved to De-Peh Yin town.

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