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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:18 AM
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Yangon full of whispered theories about bombings
Even Yangon's busy rumor mill has had trouble making sense of the bombings that struck two upscale supermarkets and a convention center in the Myanmar capital a week ago, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than 160.

However, speculation in the tea shops -- traditional venues for gossip mongers, and the best source for news in the absence of a free press -- puts the ruling military in the top tier of suspects.

The government initially cast blame for the May 7 bombings on predictable suspects: three major ethnic rebel groups and exiled pro-democracy politicians who have formed a government-in-exile.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/15/2003254760
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Village Idiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:46 AM
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1. Hearing speculation now that this was USA backed...
probably CIA...some senior Burmese official was saying that this was backed by some "superpower..."

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