Blasts in Yangon hotel aimed to dissuade investors

19 10 2013

Myanmar’s government said, a man suspected of setting off a bomb in a Yangon hotel earlier this week intended to hurt foreign investment in the country.
A handmade bomb exploded in a room of a luxury hotel in Myanmar’s largest city on Monday, injuring an American woman. One day later, police detained a man who had occupied the room.
Government officials revealed on Friday that the man was a member of an ethnic rebel group that had been demanding greater autonomy in Myanmar’s eastern Karen State.
The officials say the suspect told police he was opposed to the increase of foreign tourists and investment.
  Myanmar government says the rebel group is denying involvement. The group agreed to a ceasefire in January last year, ending more than 60 years of armed conflict.