But it seems highly unlikely that the conditions will be accepted by the rebels, whose leaders have fled Jaffna and vowed to continue their struggle from jungle strongholds.

Chuan Sukreepirom was rallying the troops, too late to save his jungle stronghold, but the rebel chieftain's honor was still riding on the line.

Unconfirmed reports are circulating here and in Cambodia that the Khmer Rouge founder, Pol Pot, may have fled his jungle stronghold in that country, perhaps to take refuge in China.

One had it that Zenjora was dead; another, that he was waiting until different political factions had so weakened each other that Zenjora could come from his jungle stronghold and seize the reins of government.

It was such a joint venture, though, that led to his death: in March 1944, against his American pilot's better judgment, Wingate insisted on being flown to one of his jungle strongholds.

Last summer, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange visited leaders of the rebel group at their jungle stronghold in San Vicente del Caguan.

The remnants of Cambodia's Communist Khmer Rouge movement have turned their guns on each other and the jungle stronghold that has withstood repeated Government offensives is now torn by factional fighting.

He noted that a few hundred royalist soldiers, driven from the capital by a coup last summer, have kept Government soldiers at bay for 10 months in their own jungle stronghold.

Civilians in the jungle stronghold of Ho Mong in eastern Myanmar, about 19 miles from the Thai border, said Burmese troops met no resistance when they entered the town on Monday morning.

The film was shot undercover, and includes interviews with human rights victims and political prisoners, as well as footage of rebels at their jungle stronghold.