Chinese Muslims are well treated in Myanmar

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Panthay Muslims protect their name

He said the residents of the Panthay quarter on 80th Street worked hard to keep good relations with their Buddhist neighbours, and added that much of the anger ostensibly directed against Muslims was in fact aimed at ethnic Indians.

“There have always been frictions between the Indians [and the Myanmar],” he said, adding the Panthays managed to stay outside the fray.

“The new generation is proud of Panthay culture,” he said. “I call myself Panthay, but my heart is with Myanmar and the Panthays.”