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YANGON - MILITARY-RULED Myanmar's state media Saturday warned of further attacks by ethnic insurgents, following the assassination of a top rebel leader in a Thai border town.
The New Light of Myanmar, which like other official media has remained silent on the killing of Pado Manh Sha, said rebels were plotting more bomb attacks in some 'important places'.
'According to the information received recently, internal and external destructive elements are scheming together to detonate bombs again in some important places and busy places in the nation,' the daily said.
Pado Manh Sha, who ranked third in the Karen National Union, the largest rebel group fighting Myanmar's armed forces, was shot dead on Thursday by two gunmen at his home in the Thai-Myanmar border town of Mae Sot.
State-run newspapers, radio and TV channels have ignored the death of the rebel leader, who was also a critical link between the rebels and Myanmar's pro-democracy movement.
Myanmar has been hit by a series of small bomb blasts and rebel shootings since December, prompting the ruling junta to blame the Karen National Union for the attacks.
Myanmar, under military rule since 1962, has signed ceasefires with 17 other ethnic armed groups, but the Karen National Union is one of the few remaining ethnic insurgent groups yet to sign a peace deal with the junta. -- AFP
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