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| 'Convenient' bomb? Rangoon Lanmadaw blast kills one |
| 2005-12-06 |
| Dec 05, 2005 (DVB) - The blast which occurred on 5 December at a flat in Rangoon Lanmadaw Township had killed one man and seriously wounding another woman, according to a local resident. âIt was at the corner of Lanmadaw Kyonegyi Street and where there are badminton courts, near Maung Wait Building. It occurred at the top floor. The roof was blown open. There were only two of them. The boy worked at a cigarette company. The girl is a civil servant. Both of them are at the hospital. It is said one person had died. There are many people arriving there at the moment. There are also many people from the (government) organisations.â The blast âconvenientlyâ occurred on the day Burmaâs military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) resumed its âNational Conventionâ, while its convening committee chairman Lt-Gen Thein Sein warned of âdestructive elementsâ within and without Burma trying to undermine and destroy the constitution-drafting convention. But it is still not clear whether the blast was caused by a bomb as rumour has it, for rumours are often spread by the military junta authorities themselves with a purpose in Burma, or by other reasons including gas explosion. Whatever the reason, the junta is likely to exploit and portray the blast as an example of a failed attempt by the political oppositions known as the destructive elements to undermine the juntaâs effort. The convention has been widely dismissed as a sham by the opposition groups, who say the delegates were mostly hand-picked by a junta intent on maintaining its grip on power. And the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) which has been barred from taking power despite a landslide victory in the 1990 election and some ethnic national parties, have boycotting the convention on the pain of imprisonment. |
| Posted by:Steve |