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                                                                     Dow
Jones Business News -- April 7, 1997
                                       Burma Officials Confirm Bomb
                                       Exploded At General's Home

                                       AP-Dow Jones News Service

                                       RANGOON -- Military officials and
relatives
                                       confirmed Monday that a parcel bomb
exploded in
                                       the home of a leading member of
Burma's military
                                       government, killing his eldest daughter.

                                       A senior military officer who
requested anonymity
                                       confirmed that an explosion occurred
Sunday
                                       evening at the house of Gen. Tin Oo,
the army
                                       chief of staff and one of Burma's
four most
                                       powerful generals.

                                       The officer said Tin Oo wasn't hurt.
But a
                                       government statement and a member of the
                                       general's family confirmed that his
eldest
                                       daughter, Cho Lei Oo, age 33, was killed.

                                       The statement called the attack a
'terrorist bomb
                                       explosion' and said a parcel bomb was
suspected.

                                       A vice chairman of pro-democracy
leader Aung
                                       San Suu Kyi's party, also named Tin
Oo but no
                                       relation to the general, said her
movement had no
                                       connection to the attack and called
it 'an act of
                                       cowardice.'

                                       In a separate incident, the
government news
                                       agency reported that 289 members of
the defunct
                                       Burma Communist Party rebel group
surrendered
                                       with 61 weapons Sunday at a ceremony in
                                       Maungtaw, 600 kilometers northwest of
Rangoon.

                                       The BCP rebellion collapsed with a
cease-fire
                                       signed by mainstream leaders in 1989,
but some
                                       holdouts kept fighting. The surrender
ceremony
                                       Sunday, which included key leader Saw
Tun Oo,
                                       was presided over by Lt. Gen. Khin
Nyunt, the
                                       powerful head of military
intelligence and one of
                                       the top four government leaders.

                                       There was no apparent connection with the
                                       bombing.

                                       There was no claim of responsibility
for the
                                       bombing, and the government did not
initially
                                       accuse anyone. The government has
blamed past
                                       bombings on communists, rebel groups
and Suu
                                       Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace
Prize.