YANGON, April 21 (Xinhua) -- A Myanmar state newspaper Wednesday charged some anti-government organizations at home and abroad with masterminding a recent terrorist bomb attacks in the water festival in Yangon, in which eight people were killed and 170 others were injured.
Without furnishing firm evidences so far, the "Mirror" accused such organizations as Kayin National Union (KNU), All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), Kayin Youth Organization (KYO), Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB), National League for Democracy- Liberated Area (NLD-LA), National Council of the Union of Burma ( NCUB) of being responsible for the bomb attacks, citing some information that these organizations held meetings in a neighboring country earlier to plot bombings during the water festival which targeted at Bago, Mandalay, Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw areas.
Under the name of "A researcher", the commentary of the paper also charged the NLD, one of the 10 old political parties in Myanmar which has boycotted the coming general election, with being involved in the incident along with its allies.
The paper quoted statistics as saying that there occurred 36 cases of such bomb attacks during 2009 and over 300 since 1988 when the present government took power.
The paper further disclosed in a compiled report that during the period of Myanmar's water festival over the past week, bombs blast in four places in the country with the first on April 14 at a toll gate in Muse check point in Shan state run by a private Asia World Company, the second on the same day at the compound of a check point in southeastern Kayin state's Kawkareik, injuring three persons, the third on April 15 at a water throwing pandal in Yangon killing eight people and injuring 170, and the fourth on April 17 at four worksites of the Myitsone hydropower dam project in the upper reaches of the Ayeyawaddy River in northernmost Kachin state on April 17, injuring one person and destroying two temporary buildings and six motor vehicles.
Several unexploded bombs were also found at the hydropower project sites, the paper added.
The authorities are carrying out urgent investigation against all the above incidents.
Source: Xinhua News
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