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Burma: Molotov cocktail attack on Aung San Suu Kyi's party headquarters

2021-03-26T02:22:22.711Z


A fire caused by a Molotov cocktail broke out in the morning of Friday March 26 in Rangoon, at the party headquarters of the former head of the civilian government Aung San Suu Kyi, a party official announced. Read also: Burma: the West put to the test of the crisis in Yangon Burma has been going through a serious crisis since the former Nobel Peace Prize winner was ousted from power in a milita


A fire caused by a Molotov cocktail broke out in the morning of Friday March 26 in Rangoon, at the party headquarters of the former head of the civilian government Aung San Suu Kyi, a party official announced.

Read also: Burma: the West put to the test of the crisis in Yangon

Burma has been going through a serious crisis since the former Nobel Peace Prize winner was ousted from power in a military coup on February 1.

Since the putsch, some deputies of the National League for Democracy (LND), the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, live in hiding and the party offices in Yangon are occupied by a handful of employees.

On Friday morning, the premises were briefly set on fire after an individual threw a Molotov cocktail around 4 a.m., just as the curfew was lifted.

"When residents nearby learned of the fire, they called the fire department to put it out ... it was under control around 5 a.m.

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Soe Win, a member of the AFP, told AFP. LND in charge of headquarters.

"It looks like someone lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it in the direction of the seat."

Only the entrance to the building was hit and party members were on hand to assess the damage, he said.

"We are going to file a complaint with the police ... We do not know who did this, but it is not at all good,"

added Soe Win.

The LND headquarters was one of the favorite places for protests in the weeks following the coup.

Read also: Women on the front line of the protests against the Burmese junta

At dawn on Friday, a small group was demonstrating near downtown Yangon, shouting

"Free our leaders!"

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According to a group for the defense of political prisoners, 320 people have been killed in the unrest since the putsch, the junta speaking for its part of a death toll of 164.

Some NLD lawmakers have formed a group called the Committee representing Pyidaungse Hluttaw (CRPH) - the Burmese word for "parliament" - to work underground in opposition to military rule.

The junta declared any association with the CRPH amounted to

"high treason"

and indicted some of its most prominent members, who all live in hiding.

Source: lefigaro

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