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Myanmar police accuse exile group over Yangon blasts
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NAYPYIDAW (AFP) - – Myanmar police said Thursday they had arrested a man in connection with deadly blasts in a Yangon park last month, blaming the attack on a militant exile group opposed to the ruling junta.
"This brutal act was committed by four terrorist murderers who are members of a group known as the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors," Myanmar police chief Khin Yi said in a statement.
One suspect was arrested while several others fled across the Thai border, police said at a press conference in the remote administrative capital Naypyidaw.
The three blasts on April 15 at a water festival in Yangon left 10 people dead and dozens wounded in the city's worst attack in five years.
Five members of a movement using the same name, armed with AK-47 assault rifles and grenades, stormed the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok in 1999 and took 38 hostages.
Myanmar has been hit by several bomb blasts in recent years which the junta has blamed on armed exile groups or ethnic rebels.
The latest attacks came as the country prepares for polls planned for the end of this year, which critics have dismissed as a sham due to laws that effectively bar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating.
The military has ruled Myanmar since 1962, partly justifying its grip on power by the need to fend off ethnic rebellions that have plagued remote border areas for decades.
Armed minorities in Karen and Shan states continue to fight the government along the country's eastern border, alleging they are victims of neglect and mistreatment.
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