Small bomb blast in Mandalay, Myanmar

[Simon43]

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma...injures-1.html

Hmm.. not good news, but 'culprit' not yet identified.

[HuangLao]

Stay safe, Simon.....

[Wilsonandson]

Sept 5 2017
The Irrawadddy
Burma

Army, Govt Warn of Militant Attacks on Cities

Members of the Border Guard Police pictured in northern Rakhine State. / The Irrawaddy



The Myanmar Army released a statement on Tuesday afternoon alleging that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) could plan to stage attacks in Myanmar’s major cities.

The Government Information Committee issued its own statement on Tuesday night reiterating the military’s earlier warning, and calling for people to act with restraint.

“People should be strongly mindful that some could instigate racial and religious violence by using the alert as a pretext,” it read, adding that the administration “strongly urges the people to collaborate for the country’s stability.”

The army listed Naypyitaw, Yangon, Mandalay and Mawlamyine as potential targets, and speculated that the ARSA has foreign ties and alleged that members had received training abroad as migrants.

ARSA’s activity has been in northern Rakhine State, where the group staged attacks on police and military targets on Aug. 25, leading to the government and military designating the organization as “terrorists.”

The Myanmar Army has since intensified clearance operations in the region. Four hundred people have been reported dead, and an estimated 125,000 have fled to Bangladesh. Tens of thousands more remain displaced internally.

In Tuesday’s statement, the army asked the public to inform police or military officials of “suspicious activity,” like the presence of large amounts of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

During a briefing last week for diplomats and UN agencies on Rakhine State at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Yangon, Police Brig-Gen Win Tun alleged that militants had used this type of fertilizer to make landmines.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma...ks-cities.html

[david44]

or flase flag excuse to eliminate/banish the muslims for good, wouldn't put it past them

[harrybarracuda]

Or just your run of the mill IED, the tool of choice of rabid muslim militants.

[HuangLao]

Or just your run of the mill IED, the tool of choice of rabid muslim militants.

Yet, you know nothing of the situation.

[harrybarracuda]

Yet, you know nothing of the situation.

Fuck off Jeff.

You think Yingluck's still in Thailand you dim fucker.

[hick]

Hmm.. not good news

Watch yer back but could be worse....I just spent the better part of 4 (f'kin) hours filling out an online application for farking Afghanistan.

[CaptainNemo]

It's strange that they would attack Moulmein... it's Mon state, with no beef with Arakan, not near Arakan, and plenty of it's own beef with the Burmese too.

[beerlaodrinker]

Im going to a mining/ hydro/ construction expo next month . Quite looking forwards to a few days in yangon. Was googling hotels today to
.and see that prices have come down.

[harrybarracuda]

Im going to a mining/ hydro/ construction expo next month . Quite looking forwards to a few days in yangon. Was googling hotels today to
.and see that prices have come down.

Full match report required. I might go in December.

[Simon43]

I'm riding my dirt-bike over the hills to Taunggyi next week, then down to Yangon to apply for a new passport.

There's plenty of army and police checkpoints in Naypyidaw right now - Saw many soldiers yesterday as I rode my bike round the lakes here.

[Mandaloopy]

Police at school gates and admin saying it is better to avoid crowds- I live right in the center of town, so not much I can do about that! The bomb blast happened in my township, I presumed all the fuss was about a exploding transformer until I read this thread.

[harrybarracuda]

Of course it could just be a "business dispute".

[Wilsonandson]

Oxford college removes Suu Kyi portrait

The portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi which was painted by Chen Yanning. (Photo: Chen Yanning/ St Hugh's College, Oxford University)
30 Sep 2017 07:20PM (Updated: 30 Sep 2017 07:35PM)



LONDON: The Oxford University college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied said Saturday (Sep 30) it had taken down a portrait of the Myanmar leader, a decision that follows widespread criticism of her over the Rohingya crisis.

The portrait, which was on display in the main entrance of St Hugh's College, has been placed in storage and was replaced on Thursday with a new painting gifted by Japanese artist Yoshihiro Takada.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi studied at St Hugh's, graduating in philosophy, politics and economics in 1967 before completing a masters in politics in 1968.

"We received a new painting earlier this month which will be exhibited at the main entrance for a period," the college said in a statement.

"The painting of Aung San Suu Kyi has meanwhile been moved to a secure location."

The university did not say whether the removal was linked to the ongoing crisis in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.

Communal violence has torn through the state since Muslim minority Rohingya militants staged deadly attacks on police posts on Aug 25.

An army-led fightback has left scores dead and sent around half a million Rohingya fleeing the mainly Buddhist country into neighbouring Bangladesh.

The United Nations describes the situation as "ethnic cleansing".

The removal of the 1997 portrait by the Chinese artist Chen Yanning comes a few days before new students arrive at the college to start their courses.

The portrait belonged to Suu Kyi's husband, the Oxford academic Michael Aris, and was bequeathed to the college after his death in 1999.

St Hugh's also counts British Prime Minister Theresa May among its alumni.

Read more at Oxford college removes Suu Kyi portrait - Channel NewsAsia

[Wilsonandson]

Published on Sep 24, 2017
Shock is turning to anger among Rohingya refugees pouring into Bangladesh.

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is calling for an armed struggle against Myanmar forces.

Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

[harrybarracuda]

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is calling for an armed struggle against Myanmar forces.

Muslim terrorists. Personally I have no problem with the Myanmar military wiping them off the face of the earth to stop them beheading people who don't believe in their particular form of bloodthirsty mumbo jumbo.

[Scottish Gary]

The Royhinga are the most persecuted people on earth according to the UN but i suppose they are Muslims so that will automatically make them blood thirsty militants.

[CaptainNemo]

The Royhinga are the most persecuted people on earth according to the UN but i suppose they are Muslims so that will automatically make them blood thirsty militants.

The UN is wrong, as it often is... they are a made-up "ethnicity", most of whom are illegal immigrants, some of which entered in the early 70s, they are not some ancient race that have always been there as their propaganda suggests; and ASSK is not in control of the military, so hashtagging and whining on the left-wing media machine against her is shifting the blame, a from the combatants involved, and b from the international community. The left always seeks to personalise issues either by creating a hysterical cult: Mandela, Obama, Corbyn, Aung San Suu Kyii, Mother Theresa; and creating a mirror image "black hat" for their dumb narrative.

[Scottish Gary]

The UN is wrong, as it often is... they are a made-up "ethnicity", most of whom are illegal immigrants, some of which entered in the early 70s, they are not some ancient race that have always been there as their propaganda suggests; and ASSK is not in control of the military, so hashtagging and whining on the left-wing media machine against her is shifting the blame, a from the combatants involved, and b from the international community. The left always seeks to personalise issues either by creating a hysterical cult: Mandela, Obama, Corbyn, Aung San Si Kay, Mother Theresa; and creating a mirror image "black hat" for their dumb narrative.

The vast majority were born in the Rakhine State and have lived there for decades. Most of whom are the descendants of the Rohingya who were brought to Burma from India by the British as cheap labor after the second world war. Aung Si Suu Ky is not in control of the military but like them and like her father she is a Burmese Nationalist. Her attitude to all Myanmar's ethnic states are less than sympathetic.
This has nothing to do with right or left. Its ethnic cleansing and as usual its the women and children who are suffering the most. Soldiers gang raping and massacring innocent civilians is a crime against humanity no what the ethnicity, nationality or religion.

[Scottish Gary]

Muslim terrorists. Personally I have no problem with the Myanmar military wiping them off the face of the earth to stop them beheading people who don't believe in their particular form of bloodthirsty mumbo jumbo.

Are you enjoying reading about the mass rapes and massacres the Burmese military are carrying out on the terrified Muslim woman and children trying to flee?

[Wilsonandson]

Are you enjoying reading about the mass rapes and massacres the Burmese military are carrying out on the terrified Muslim woman and children trying to flee?

One side murdered 9 policeman the otherside retaliated by forcing 500,000 men, women and children to flee across to Bangledesh as those who stayed were slaughtered by all means possible by a military force unchecked, commiting heinious war crimes as a role model peace keeping herion smiles.

[CaptainNemo]

One side murdered 9 policeman the otherside retaliated by forcing 500,000 men, women and children to flee across to Bangledesh as those who stayed were slaughtered by all means possible by a military force unchecked, commiting heinious war crimes as a role model peace keeping herion smiles.

And you were there, were you? You saw it all? You know the facts? Or did you just download them off the Guardian/BBC/UN/EU "news" website or whatever...?

[CaptainNemo]

Are you enjoying reading about the mass rapes and massacres the Burmese military are carrying out on the terrified Muslim woman and children trying to flee?

As a Burma scholar Gary, you'll know that the Burmese military massacres and rapes Buddhists and Christians too; do you suppose that these "terrified womam [sic] and children" comprise the sum total of the population affected? Did you enjoy reading about all those 20-something male "refugees" that left the African and Asian shores of the mediterranean leaving all the actual vulnerable refugees behind to go and commit various offences in European cities, not limited to human trafficking?

[Scottish Gary]

As a Burma scholar Gary, you'll know that the Burmese military massacres and rapes Buddhists and Christians too; do you suppose that these "terrified womam [sic] and children" comprise the sum total of the population affected? Did you enjoy reading about all those 20-something male "refugees" that left the African and Asian shores of the mediterranean leaving all the actual vulnerable refugees behind to go and commit various offences in European cities, not limited to human trafficking?

What has the ethnic cleansing of half a million people in Mynmar got to do with refugees crossing the Mediterranean? Incidentally how could someone leave Asian shores and cross the Med? You better brush up on your geography.
At the end of the day you have a poisonous hatred of Muslims and that is blinding you to the crimes against humanity currently getting committed by the Burmese military in the Rakhine State.......And because the Burmese soldiers rape other religions too that doesn't make it all right.