Myanmar official media Friday charged external and internal anti-government groups with stirring up demonstrations and unstability in the country, saying that the external ones are giving directives and providing assistance to the internal ones for the move.
"The people will not accept any acts to destabilize the nation and harm their interests," the New Light of Myanmar said.
The newspaper's charge followed Buddhist monks' demonstration in central Magway division's Pakokku in the last two days, calling for bringing down of commodity prices.
According to the newspaper, some Buddhist monks from some monasteries in Pakokku staged demonstration on Wednesday, holding placards and calling for release of detainees and fall of commodity prices.
On Thursday, when some local government officials along with some high vulnerable monks went to the Alekyaungtaik monastery for persuasion to ease the tension, about 50 monk members threw stones at four departmental cars that brought the officials to the scene, and overturned them to have it put on fire, it said.
For the past three weeks before the incident, a series of small- scale demonstrations scattered in several locations in the biggest city of Yangon and other places in protest against massive fuel price hike and doubling of bus fare overnight which have negatively impacted the public transportation and drawn public concern.
These series of demonstrations, charged with instigating to cause unrest in the country, were promptly broken up by the authorities successively.
According to other sources, so far over 100 protesters including 13 former student activists have been detained.
The authorities described the demonstrations as harming the stability of the state, community peace and rule of law. Security has been tightened against more possible outbreak of demonstrations in the country.
The Myanmar energy authorities surprisingly raised on Aug. 15 the official prices of fuel including gasoline, diesel and compressed natural gas supplied to private vehicles to a new high of two to five times respectively in less than two years since October 2005.
Source: Xinhua
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