Who
could be behind Rangoon bomb attacks? - The
Irrawaddy, May 13, 2005
...A former explosives expert who planted bombs for a Karen rebel
group told The Irrawaddy that although a network of operatives existed
they didn’t have the ability to plant bombs in busy Rangoon
supermarkets. For a start, they didn’t have the bombs, he said.
Karen, Shan, Karenni and other groups based along the Thailand-Burma
border are anyway in disarray. They lack not only organizational
and operational sophistication but also co-ordination. It is hard
to imagine that they could plan a coordinated attack in Rangoon
without being detected by a watchful regime.
In Rangoon, the most commonly accepted theory is that former military
intelligence officials could be behind the attacks. Yet the entire
intelligence apparatus has been dismantled, intelligence chief Gen
Khin Nyunt is under house arrest and his subordinates are in jail—“I
don’t believe former MI agents are a significant force,”
said a senior Rangoon diplomat...
Who could be behind Rangoon bomb attacks?
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