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DOW JONES BN 7/4
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.