Bombers hit pro-government group in Burma

ေရႊျပည္သာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕႐ုံးတြင္ ဗံုးေပါက္ကဲြ
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ယေန႔နံနက္ (၆) နာရီ (၃၀) မိနစ္ခန္႔တြင္ အမွတ္ (၆) ရပ္ကြက္ ေရႊျပည္သာၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕႐ုံးတြင္ ဗံုးတလံုးေပါက္ကဲြမႈ ျဖစ္ပြားသည္။
ဗံုးေပါက္ကဲြမႈေၾကာင့္ ထိခုိက္ဒဏ္ရာရမႈ တစံုတရာမရွိဘဲ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေနေၾကာင္း ေက်ာက္ တံတားၿမိဳ႕နယ္ တာ၀န္က် ရဲတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ဧၿပီ (၂၀) ရက္ က ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ေက်ာက္တံတားၿမိဳ႕နယ္ (၄) ေနရာ၊ ဒဂုံၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ လမ္းမေတာ္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္တုိ႔တြင္ ဗံုးေပါက္ကဲြမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည္။

Rangoon (dpa) - In a rare show of defiance, a bomb was detonated Tuesday at an office of the pro-government Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), witnesses and security personnel said.

The explosion, which occurred at 6:30 am (7am Thailand time) at the USDA's Shwe Pyi Tha office in Rangoon, destroyed some tables but caused no casualties.


The USDA, which boasts millions of members, is expected to be transformed into a proxy political party for the military to contest a general election scheduled in 2010.


Acts of violence against the USDA are rare in Burma, which has been under military rule since 1962.


Growing frustration with the junta's rule flared up in September, last year, when tens-of-thousands of Burmese took to the streets of Rangoon to protest the country's worsening economic plight and lack of democratic progress.


The army brutally cracked down on the monk-led demonstrations, killing at least 31 people and leaving dozens missing.


The regime's callous handling of relief efforts for victims of Cyclone Nargis, which hit Burma's central coast on May 2-3 leaving up to 139,000 dead or missing, has added to the discontent, sources said.