Some 11 bombers believed to be terrorists have been arrested by the Myanmar authorities in connection with a series of bomb blasts in the country over the past five months.
The 11 bombers, led by Kyaw Zay Lin, were captured following the arrest of their leader on Jan 22 at his book shop in Kontalapaung village in Yangon's Mingaladon township, said Ministry of Home Affairs as reported by the local daily the New Light of Myanmar.
The authorities also seized some hand-made mines, 43 detonators, 32 pistols, 33 rounds of ammunition, remote control system devices and many related materials for conducting explosion.
All of them were suspected with being involved in the last series of bomb blasts in September last year and January this year.
The September bomb explosion occurred at seven different locations in the industrial zones of Hlaingtharya, Shwepaukan and Mingaladon townships in Yangon at some intervals within four hours' duration from mid-night to dawn.
The other two incidents were cited as being an explosion in Papun in the Kayin state on Dec. 16 when a fun fair celebrating the ethnic Kayin new year day was underway.
The blast killed seven people and injured 11.
The latest incident was that two series of explosions at five minutes interval occurred in Kyaukkyi, Myanmar''s Bago division, on Jan 26 without casualties but damaged fences and windows of some buildings. Now all 11 supspected bombers was under charged of terrorists act to the nation.
" No government or no one could not charge Burma regime as a terror government of terrorists for killing, torturing innocent people from 1988 bloody coup to 2007 Burmese safferon none violent revolution" , said one of western deplomats in Rangoon after reading state own newspaper.
The regime has stepped up its decades-long campaign against minority groups, with offensives against ethnic Chinese Kokang rebels in the northeast in August and the Christian Karen insurgents in June.
On Sunday, aid groups said an army crackdown in the eastern region had forced 2,000 ethnic Karen villagers to flee into the jungle.
Civil war has wracked the country since independence in 1948, and while most rebel groups have reached ceasefire deals with the junta, analysts say the army is determined to crush the rest before national elections promised this year.
Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since 1962, has co-opted some previously hostile rebel groups to become junta-backed border forces that have taken on their former brothers-in-arms.
Moreover, Myanmar's state media on Wednesday blamed ethnic separatists for two explosions in a town in the heart of the military-ruled country.
The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a junta mouthpiece, said the separate blasts occurred in Kyaukkyi town in central Bago Division early on Tuesday morning, causing minor damage to property but no injuries.
The newspaper blamed the Karen National Union (KNU), a Christian-led rebel group that has been fighting for autonomy for more than five decades.
"It was learnt that the perpetrations were the acts of a group of KNU Brigade-3," the English-language article said.
In December the junta also blamed the group for a blast in the eastern state of Karen which killed eight people and wounded 13 others.
"Such incidents have proved that KNU insurgents are detonating bombs, blowing up power lines, planting mines in farms and gardens and extorting money, rice and rations from villages and towns," Wednesday's report said.
"It is learnt that as the terrorist insurgents in disguise are penetrating regions where peace and stability prevail, the local people are cooperating with the authorities in exposing them," it added.
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