>*** Myanmar Airways F-27 crash victims raped, murdered
>
>Several people survived the crash of a passenger aircraft in eastern
>Myanmar last month, only to suffer rape, torture and eventual death
>at the hands of local villagers, the Bangkok Post reported on Sunday.
>In a full-page report which quoted unnamed officials and witnesses
>from the region of the crash site, the paper said an air hostess and
>a female university student from the Myanmar Airways Fokker F-27
>turboprop were gang-raped by villagers and an infant starved to death.
>It said male survivors were tortured and villagers chopped off ears and
>fingers to get at passengers' gold jewellery.
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556157929-2e1
>*** Air crash story ``Hollywood sensationalism''
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556161272-0a6
Jean LaRoche
Montreal