(Compilation of translated
news articles direct from Burmese Blogs this week.)
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| Armed Burmese police guarding Rangoon's Traders Hotel. |
Rangoon the former capital of Burma now
known as Myanmar is tightly gripped by mass-hysteria driven by extreme fear and
loathing of Muslims as so many bombs believed to be planted by Muslim
terrorists have been exploding recently all over the city and other smaller
cities across Burma.
Just last night (October-14) a crude
time bomb deliberately left in the bathroom of Traders Hotel’s Room-921
exploded at 11:30 pm and seriously injured a 43-year-old American woman. She
and her husband and two young Children had just checked into the hotel at about
12:00 am that day.
Before that two teenagers were
seriously wounded by another home-made bomb left on roadside in Thar-kay-ta
Township of Rangoon when they tried to open the package at about 5:40 pm on
October-13.
At about 8:45 pm on October-11 a
29-year-old policeman and a young woman were killed by a bomb left in their
room at Chan-Myae Guest House in Taung-ngu Town. One young woman also in the
room was wounded and later taken to the hospital.
Those are just few major cases of
Muslim bombers trying to kill and maim people of Burma as there were more cases
of unexploded bombs left in Rangoon and other cities across Burma.
Traders Hotel Bomber A Muslim Caught in 24 Hours
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| Traders Hotel's Room-921 where a bomb exploded. |
The bomb left in the Room-921 on
Traders’ Hotel’s ninth floor by the last guest -- a Burmese Muslim man holding a
Malaysian passport -- exploded at about 11:30 pm on October-14. Mrs Piaiorst a
43-year-old American mother of two young children was slightly injured as the
bomb went off in the bathroom.
She and her husband and their two kids
just checked into Room-921 at about 12:30 pm that day. She suffered wounds on
her left thigh, left buttock, right forearm, and left side of her back and she
reached Rangoon General Hospital’s ER at about 11:40 pm that night.
The whole ninth floor of the hotel was
evacuated and the guests re-accommodated in the vacant rooms on other floors.
Her family is still in the hotel as the police and army personnel cleared the
hotel and the adjacent areas.
After examining thoroughly the CCTV footages and guest-records police SB
(Special Branch) quickly discovered the culprit and arrested 27-year-old
Burmese Muslim man Saw Myint Lwin who was the last guest staying in Room-921.
Police alleged that after planting the
bomb in the bathroom he hurriedly left the hotel in a taxi, paying the driver a
very generous 70,000 kyats. But he apparently dropped his Burmese NRC card
(National Registration Card) in the taxi which led police to his where about
and his arrest.
He was described unofficially by the
police as a Muslim and a former Burmese national now holding a Malaysian
passport which he used to check into the Traders Hotel in Rangoon.
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| Four suspect bombers caught for Traders Hotel bombing. |
Malaysian Muslim Couple Left a Bomb in Mandalay Restaurant
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| Shwe Bae restaurant where a Muslim bomb was left. |
The crude time-bomb rigged with an M-67
hand grenade was left under the table-24 of popular Shwe-Bae (Golden-Duck)
restaurant at the corner of 16
th and 80
th streets in
Mandalay. The Muslim-looking couple at the table left the restaurant in the
late morning of October-14 after just a short sit-down there.
They had deliberately left the bag
containing the time-bomb under the table, but the diligent waiter thought that
they had forgotten their bag and he picked it up and followed them and tried to
return the bag to them.
They initially refused to take it back but
eventually take it and after a few steps away from the waiter boy they dropped
the bag at the corner and ran away as if their lives were in serious danger. By
then the waiter became suspicious and opened the bag and found the bomb inside.
He surely was either a brave boy or a stupid boy as he nearly blew himself up.
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| Bomber Mohammad Thar Lay. |
The restaurant staff fearfully left the
time-bomb on the kerb of 16
th street and immediately called the
police. Later the army’s bomb-disposal team from Mandalay Field-Engineers Battalion
came and tried to defuse the clicking time bomb which contained an M-67 Hand
grenade rigged to a table-clock powered by a pack of 6 AA-size batteries.
But team’s brave efforts to defuse the
bomb were futile and eventually they covered the bomb with car-tyres and
sandbags and blew it up with some explosives.
Police then took the photos from CCTV
and looked for the Muslim-looking couple all over the town and finally caught
them near that famous U Pain Bridge a tourist attraction in Mandalay at about
6:00 pm on same day October-14.
The suspect couple are both Malaysian nationals holding Malaysian
passports but the man was a former Burmese national and Bengali-Muslim named
Mohammad Thar Lay (a) Aung Aung a son of Soe Lwin.
