Narinjara News
KNLA on SPDC
allegations for bomb blasts
Dhaka, 7th August
03: In a statement datelined 6th
August 03 the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) has refuted the State Peace
and Development Council junta (SPDC) of Burma’s claims that the KNLA is to
blame for the bomb blasts on 26th
July in a press conference, on 15th
May in Phyu Town cinema hall (movie theatre) and two
time bombs blast in Taungoo on 27th July.
In the statement the KNLA also denied the SPDC allegations of an arrested Saw Mra Sein’s association with KNLA Brigade II and that the
entire scheme of carrying out the blasts was masterminded by the Brigadier Mae Ae Sein of KNLA.
Saw San Bhay (aka) Saw Mra Sein hails from Taungoo Town
of Bago Division in
Though KNLA is engaged in a struggle against the SPDC-sponsored state-level
terrorism, it has never been a terrorist organization like SPDC.
The Burmese junta has been sponsoring such acts of terrorism in a number of
townships only to discredit KNLA and increase oppressive acts against the
people and political parties.
Through a prearranged scheme the Burmese SPDC junta has been planning and
conducting such heinous terrorist acts to divert the attention of the people
and the world at large from the Depeyin massacre on
30th May that was aimed at
assassinating Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Tin Oo of the National League for
Democracy. With the lone aim of destroying the political opposition the
SPDC junta has systematically been carrying out its terrorist campaign against
the people, students, monks and political organizations. In conclusion
the statement urged everyone in
The KNLA is the armed wing of the Karen National Union, a guerrilla outfit
fighting for self-determination since