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	Rangoon bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1983 Rangoon bombing was an attack aimed to kill the South Korean President, Chun Doo Hwan.
		During the visit, he planned to lay a wreath at the Martyr’s Mausoleum in that city, to commemorate Aung San, who founded the independent Burma and was assassinated in 1947.
		As some of the President’s staff began assembling at the Mausoleum, one of three bombs concealed in the roof of the memorial exploded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rangoon_bombing (318 words)

	North Korea South Korea Rangoon Bombing 1983
		On 9 October, he went to lay a wreath at the martyrs' memorial in Rangoon, which commemorates Thankin Aung San, founder of independent Burma, who was assassinated in 1947.
		Chun's car was delayed by traffic, and just before he arrieve, a bomb demolished the memorial, killing 21 and wounding 46.
		Presumably the terrorists, watching from a distance, had assumed that the president had arrived and the ceremony was beginning, and so detonated the bomb by radio.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/kilo/korea1983.htm (389 words)

	Rangoon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rangoon
		But in the great Indian famine of the seventies that ship, already old then, made some wonderful dashes across the Gulf of Bengal with cargoes of rice from Rangoon to Madras.
		The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head.
		To Ceylon for orders, and from Ceylon to Rangoon to load rice for Rio Janeiro.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Rangoon (170 words)

	Rangoon: the Christmas raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 12th Sentai did not go to the higher altitude and instead began its bombing run--one report says from 3,000 meters--so was able to drop its bombs on schedule, hitting the electric power plant in Rangoon.
		One airman reported that the explosions were "like a flower blossoming." By the time they had fought through the target, their defensive ammunition was almost gone: three planes had expended all their ammunition, while another had only 75 rounds remaining.
		From their experience at Rangoon, the Japanese concluded that they had not sufficient appreciated the power of enemy anti-aircraft fire and the ability of enemy fighters to intercept.
	www.warbirdforum.com /rangoon4.htm (1740 words)

	Fei Hu: The script
		News of the AVG victory was transmitted to Mingladon Aerodrome outside of Rangoon, where the AVG shared the airbase with the British Royal Air Force.
		Bombs hitting area around Rangoon and seen from the air and ground.
		On February 28th 1942, the AVG evacuated Rangoon and joined the flood of humanity, desperately fleeing before the steady advance of the Japanese Army.
	home.att.net /~ww2aviation/Fei-Hu3.html (3106 words)

	Rangoon Jump - YANK - July 1, 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The outfit was to land on D-minus-one about 25 miles south of Rangoon and then clear all Japs from Elephant Point, at the entrance to the Rangoon River.
		For three hours the Liberators bombed, with B-25s and Mosquitoes streaking in between flights to bomb and strafe.
		Incendiary bombs had sparked the bamboo and grass huts as though they were cellophane.
	cbi-theater-3.home.comcast.net /rangoonjump/rangoonjump.html (2634 words)

	After the bombing incident in Rangoon, Burma watches warn against escalation of junta repression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Burma watchers in the Philippines today warned that the May 7 bombing incident in Rangoon may lead to the escalation of human rights abuses inside military-ruled Burma.
		The May 7 bombing occurred at two upscale supermarkets and at a convention center in Rangoon where at least 19 died and another 59 were taken to hospitals.
		IID cautioned the junta against jumping to conclusions that the exiled opposition groups were responsible for the bombing.
	www.iidnet.org /adv/burma/2005/rangoon_bombing.htm (340 words)

	Dick Rossi of the AVG, part 2
		Their transmitter was out of commission at the base causing communication problems but they were able to monitor some of the other AVG transmissions so we learned that the flight of seven had only made it as far as Lashio due to strong headwinds.
		After a bombing raid that night and a couple of intercept flights which turned out to be false alarms, I was scheduled to go on an escort mission on the morning of 19 January.
		Rather than fly directly across the gulf to Rangoon, the RAF pilot wanted to follow the northern shore in case the oil tank repair did not hold up and he would have to make an emergency landing.
	home.att.net /~C.C.Jordan/Rossi-AVG2.html (3105 words)

	Burmanet » Irrawaddy: Rangoon bombing suspects released - Shah Paung
		The 17 detainees were arrested in the village of Ta Hku Hkee in Irrawaddy Division, Ein-me Township by Burmese authorities—comprising nearly 100 police, soldiers and intelligence agents—on suspicions that they were directly involved in the May 7 bombings in Rangoon, and that they aided the ethnic opposition group Karen National Union by hiding weapons.
		Burmese authorities are said to be considering compensation for the death of Saw San Poe and the lengthy detention of the 17 villagers in the form of local development projects and direct compensation to Saw San Poe’s family.
		Three bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in Rangoon at the Dagon Center, Junction-8 Center and the Yangon [Rangoon] Trader on May 7.
	www.burmanet.org /news/2005/08/26/irrawaddy-rangoon-bombing-suspects-released-shah-paung (348 words)

	Burma: Japan vs. the Flying Tigers, December 1941 (part 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The group reached Rangoon at 12:45 --five minutes early--and circled around the city at 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) before beginning its bombing run against the dock area of Rangoon.
		This was the plane flown by Capt Iteya Mitsui, which crashed in a city street near the Rangoon docks, killing the pilot and six crewmen.
		The 98th Sentai took up its bombing run again, but couldn't manage to line up on its intended targets, the port buildings and the freighters at anchor in the river.
	www.warbirdforum.com /rangoon3.htm (791 words)

	Burmanet » Yonhap News Agency: Calls rise for review of 1983 Rangoon bombing by North Korea - Kim Hyung-jin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Twenty-three years after 17 high-ranking Seoul government officials were killed in a North Korean bombing in Burma, now Myanmar, the full truth may be known soon as one of the Northern communist agents involved wants to live in South Korea, according to a South Korean lawmaker.
		After the bombing, the communist trio — an army major and two captains — fled the scene, but two days later, one of them was shot to death and two others were arrested after failing to blow themselves up with hand grenades
		Some believe that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il should be held responsible for the Rangoon bombing, because he, as a key party official, was deeply involved in day-to-day state affairs, including the North’s policy toward South Korea.
	www.burmanet.org /news/2006/02/23/yonhap-news-agency-calls-rise-for-review-of-1983-rangoon-bombing-by-north-korea-kim-hyung-jin (767 words)

	John Derbyshire on Kim Jong Il on National Review Online
		They were supposed to attend a ceremony at the martyr's memorial in Rangoon, to commemorate one of the founding fathers of modern Burma.
		Investigation revealed that the bombing was the work of a North Korean special-ops team, reporting to Kim Jong Il, who was at that time heir apparent to his father, Kim Il Sung.
		One of the North Korean agents responsible, a young woman named Kim Hyun Hee, survived the inevitable suicide attempt — North Korean agents are trained to kill themselves to avoid capture — and revealed that she was part of a special-ops unit run by Kim Jong Il.***
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire040403.asp (2366 words)

	Negotiating with the North \| thebulletin.org
		Were all three reactors up and running, they could generate 30 bombs' worth of plutonium a year.
		A blockade of more serious stuff would be easy for the North to evade--a bomb's worth of plutonium, the size of a softball, can be stowed on board an unflagged freighter or transported by air or truck.
		On the other hand, Pyongyang has hinted it would be willing to give up the five or six bombs' worth of plutonium it removed from its Yongbyon reactor in 1994, which is now stored in casks under U.S. supervision.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=nd03sigal (3577 words)

	Newsean News and Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda demanded Rangoon announce a public timetable to begin a transition to democracy, and also insisted that Mrs Suu Kyi and her followers be included.
		He also accused the Rangoon regime of direct involvement in the attacks on Mrs Suu Kyi's convoy in the northern town of Depayin last May 30.
		He bombed the Philippines embassy in Jakarta and almost killed the ambassador a little earlier.
	www.newsean.in.th /index1.html (7667 words)

	Burma's Opposition Groups Deny Role in Rangoon Bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Soon after the bombings at three Rangoon sites on Saturday, Burma's military government blamed ethnic minority rebels and an exiled pro-democracy group for the attacks.
		No Thais were reported killed in the bombing, but a Thai military plane was sent to Rangoon Sunday morning and returned to Bangkok with 128 Thai citizens, including one woman wounded in the bombing.
		Saturday's bomb blasts came less than two weeks after a bombing in the city of Mandalay that left two people dead and 15 wounded.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-05-08-voa11.cfm (468 words)

	Barry L. Rothberg, Averting Armageddon: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism In The United States, 8 Duke J. of Comp. & Int'l ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The World Trade Center bombing was disturbing enough, but former nuclear weapons scientist Theodore B. Taylor has estimated that a device with a half-kiloton yield would be sufficient to knock both Trade Towers into the Hudson River.
		Hizballah is most infamous for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and the kidnapping of Westerners in Lebanon.
		A bomb can be fashioned from reactor- (as opposed to weapons-) grade plutonium, though the task is more technically challenging.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/djcil/articles/djcil8p79.htm (17189 words)

	Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1996 - Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		UNSCR 731 ordered Libya to turn over the two Libyan bombing suspects for trial in the United States or the United Kingdom, pay compensation to the victims, cooperate in the ongoing investigations into the Pan Am 103 and UTA Flight 772 bombings, and cease all support for terrorism.
		In addition to the Pan Am and UTA airliner bombings, Libya continues to be held responsible for other terrorist acts of the past that retain current interest.
		North Korea is best known for its involvement in the 1987 midair bombing of KAL Flight 858 and the 1983 Rangoon bombing aimed at South Korean Government officials.
	www.usemb.se /terror/rpt1996/overview.html (2653 words)

	North Korea - Kim Jong Il
		Once known as a drinker, health problems have forced him to give up liquor and rumors of his guards kidnapping Japanese women to serve as his companions on luxury vacations fuel speculation he is a womanizer.
		Most importantly though, Kim is a dictator who has knowingly allowed or ordered the deaths of thousands of citizens, remains a suspect in the 1983 Rangoon bombing that killed South Korean Cabinet Ministers and is a suspect in the 1987 bombing of a South Korean airline.
		His nuclear weapons program is a source of widespread international concern, and the gulags or "education through labor" camps have caused the deaths of thousands, torn apart families, and ruined countless lives.
	unix.dfn.org /printer_Kim_Jong-Il.shtml (708 words)

	Irrawaddy.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sources in Rangoon also report that military leaders sought advice from North Korea several years ago on the administrative relocation to Pyinmana.
		Sources in Rangoon report that North Korean workers routinely spend a month working in Naypyidaw and then fly to Rangoon for a few weeks of recreation.
		Four of his ministers and several other officials were killed in the bombing during a visit to the Martyr’s Mausoleum on October 9.
	www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=5663&print=yes&c=e (683 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Cinema gold. Thank you.
		July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
		December 6: Truck bomb kills 52 and injures 1,000 outside a security building in Bogotá, Colombia; blast is blamed on drug lord Pablo Escobar.
		July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=489694 (4899 words)

	Korean Reunification Talks: High Stakes for the U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Equally dramatic was the North's attempt to murder ROK President Chun Doo Hwan during his state visit to Rangoon, Burma,, in October 1983.
		A bomb exploded during a wreath laying ceremony at a memorial shrine for Burmese war dead, killing four Burmese officials and 17 South Koreans,, including four ROK cabinet members.
		After two North Korean army officers were found guilty of the bombing by a Rangoon court, Burma severed diplomatic relations with North Korea.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/asb33.cfm (3697 words)

	15. The Achille Lauro Incident
		This sharp rise in assassinations, bombings, hijackings and kidnappings was attributable in part to improved technology -- better communications, more rapid transportation, and weapons that were both more compact and more deadly.
		The bombing of Harrods in London, the bombing at Orly Airport in Paris, the destruction of a Gulf Air flight in the United Arab Emirates, and the Rangoon bombing of South Korean officials are just a few examples -- not to mention the brutal attack on a West Jerusalem shopping mall this past April."
		Second bomb found in a subway station is defused.
	eightiesclub.tripod.com /id301.htm (1902 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Special Documentary Edition - North Korea: Nuclear Threat"
		As a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, North Korea was required to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities.
		The prospect of a North Korea with five or six nuclear bombs compelled President Clinton to consider a military strike on the Yongbyon facility.
		American aircraft were capable of carrying out a precision strike, but there was the chance that the North Koreans would respond with total war, resulting in staggering losses for the United States and South Korea.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript1157.html (3526 words)

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		The citizens of Rangoon, who were fortunate enough to witness the enemy
		Here's a 1945 Rangoon map, showing some bomb damage as red X's.
		Mahlwagon Rail Yards on the eastern end of Rangoon.
	www.40thbombgroup.org /Rangoon.html (654 words)

	Democratic Voice of Burma
		The junta said that the bombers attended trainings in using the explosives on the Thai soil.
		He also said the SPDC should use diplomatic channels to express their positions, or to seek assistance from Thailand in investigating the bomb blasts in Burma, but had failed to do so.
		Burma junta accuses Thailand and CIA of involving in Rangoon blasts
	english.dvb.no /news.php?id=4747 (217 words)

	January '42
		Eight of the first Squadron were picked off at noon to leave for Rangoon and reinforce the Second Squadron.
		The nearest thing to any excitement was news from Rangoon that they got three Jap fighters while escorting British bombers on a raid into Thailand.
		The ground crew is not going and we are only supposed to stay for 8 to 10 days and protect Rangoon against the worst of the Jap's big effort which is now on.
	members.tripod.com /Flying-tiger-ace/id31.htm (3703 words)

	The 50-Year War: The Truce Continues
		In 1987, final preparations were being made for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and tens of thousands of international athletes, officials and tourists were about to see the economic miracle of South Korea.
		North Korean agents Kim Seung Il, 76, and Kim Hyon Hui, 25, had left a time bomb in a portable radio in an overhead luggage bin when they flew on the plane from Baghdad to Abu Dhabi.
		They intended to catch a flight after the bombing from Abu Dhabi to Rome, then to Vienna where North Korean diplomats were to get them back to the North.
	www.estripes.com /1953to2000.htm (3121 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		The 35th office is the Party organization in charge of South Korean affairs along with the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and said to be in charge of intelligence operations against South Korea in third countries.
		It was behind the shooting down of a KAL airliner in 1987 and the Rangoon bombing.
		A North Korean agent who was sent to the South with fake documents identifying him as a Filipino professor of Islamic Studies named Muhammad Kansu also belonged to the 35th office, it said.
	english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200608/200608210027.html (324 words)

	Conspiracy Theory: Gems & Junkies in Burma by R.W. Hughes
		In other cases, it may be as simple as a Burmese military officer or unit confiscating gems from miners or traders as they make their way abroad.
		These include a deepwater port in Rangoon, the Leo bus franchise for buses between Rangoon and Upper Burma and a $33-million toll road to the Chinese border through the heart of the opium-growing country.
		Bomb an embassy in Kenya, bomb an embassy in Belgrade.
	www.ruby-sapphire.com /burmese_politics.htm (6263 words)

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