 Myanmar's military government blamed exiled dissidents for two small bomb blasts in the capital, Yangon, and suggested more "destructive acts" may be planned, state media said on Sunday. Nobody was wounded in the explosion at a bus terminal on Thursday night or in a second blast early Saturday at the Panorama Hotel in central Yangon. "The government has received information that since early January exiled saboteurs active on the borders are hatching plots to step up their destructive acts in Myanmar," the state-owned Myanma Ahlin daily newspaper said in a report. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the newspaper named several exiled opposition groups accused by the junta of "recruiting, training and sending saboteurs". They included the National League for Democracy (Liberated Areas), a splinter group from the main NLD led by democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been confined by the junta since May 2003 despite international calls for her release. The newspaper also named the All Burma Students Democratic Front, the Free Trade Union of Burma, the Burma Communist Party and the Vigorous Burmese Students Warriors. |