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grenade attack & a war on down ther



Subject: grenade attack & a war on down there in Rangoon

Maybe it was aimed at the TOTAL headquarters offices there, and
went off target...when grenades start blowing off in the street, 
maybe then the world news media would catch on that there is a war in
Burma, and that investors should stay out. ds> 
> Yangon grenade attack result of marital dispute: authorities
> BANGKOK, Aug 29 (AFP) - A hand grenade attack on the car of a Myanmar
> military officer which injured two people was the result of a marital
> dispute and not a political act, officials said Sunday.
> The Thailand-based All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) said the
> attack took place in the capital Yangon on August 18, and speculated it may
> have been a result of rivalry in the military.
> 
> But official sources who acknowledged the incident said a woman had
> confessed to throwing the grenade at her husband and a suspected lover.
> 
> The officer, who was out of town, had allegedly lent his car to a married
> businessman friend who used it to court another woman.
> 
> The would-be Romeo and Juliet remain in hospital with serious, but not
> fatal, injuries.
> 
> The ABSDF statement said it was unclear who had thrown the grenade, but that
> it was lobbed from the window of a passing car.
> 
> The ABSDF, part of a wider group of dissidents and opposition leaders
> calling for a mass uprising against the ruling military next month, are
> accused by the junta of being an armed terrorist group.
> 
> Myanmar has been under military rule since it gained independence from
> Britain in 1962.