Mizzima News: ‘Warriors’ claim responsibility for Rangoon blast

Filed under: News, Inside Burma A Burmese armed student rebel group, Vigorous Burmese Students Warrior (VBSW), on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the bomb blast on Monday in a suburban township in Burma’s former capital Rangoon. VBSW in a statement, posted on a Burmese blog in exile, on Tuesday said they had triggered the bomb blast at the office of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) on Monday, July 1. “As a continuation of VBSW’s operation, the attacked the USDA office in Rangoon’s Shwepyithar Township is apart of our unit no. 18’s handiwork,” the Burmese statement posted on http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/, said. The statement further said, they have been launching an operation against Burma’s military rulers and that it had exploded two bombs on April 20, targetting vehicles owned by USDA officials,... [read full story]