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This report details the results of a PHR investigation into the March 20 and 21, 2013, attacks on Muslim students, teachers, and residents in the Mingalar Zayyone quarter of Meiktila, a small town in central Burma.
A two-person team from PHR conducted 33 interviews about the attacks, which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 children and four teachers. The report details the attacks by the Buddhist mobs, provides evidence that local police officers were complicit in the crimes, and lists policy recommendations for the Burmese government and the international community.
The below map, which includes photographs of the destroyed mosques and Islamic schools in Meiktila, is also in the report. A second map, showing locations of the anti-Muslim violence, also follows.
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/meiktila-report-may-2013.html
Map 1: PHR-Verified Destruction of Mosques and Islamic Schools in the City of Meiktila, Burma, 20-23 March, 2013.
Map 2: Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma, March–April 2013. This map was produced using information from publicly available media sources.
The narrative recounts how students and teachers at Mingalar Zayyone Islamic boarding school for boys continued with afternoon classes and evening dinner even after learning of violence in the city center; remained in the school compound as it was surrounded by armed men; fled to a boggy field to hide during the night; were flushed out and sought refuge in a nearby walled residential compound, parts of which were then set on fire; were forced to march the next morning through a gauntlet of armed assailants to a convoy of military trucks; and eventually were transported to a police station, from which their families eventually retrieved them. It also recounts the experiences of Muslim neighbors caught up in the violence, and of a national politician who observed the event.
The narrative includes eyewitness accounts of Muslims being intimidated and terrorized; forced to eat pork and pray in the Buddhist manner; assaulted with sticks, pipes, bricks, stones, slingshots, knives, and swords; and murdered, including by being burned alive.
Meanwhile, armed riot police at the scene did little or nothing to intervene to prevent or halt the attacks.
The complete composite narrative of
events, as recounted by eyewitnesses,
is available in the full report here:
physiciansforhumanrights.org/meiktilareport-2013.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/Burma-Meiktila-Massacre-Executive-Summary-May-2013.pdf
A two-person team from PHR conducted 33 interviews about the attacks, which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 children and four teachers. The report details the attacks by the Buddhist mobs, provides evidence that local police officers were complicit in the crimes, and lists policy recommendations for the Burmese government and the international community.
The below map, which includes photographs of the destroyed mosques and Islamic schools in Meiktila, is also in the report. A second map, showing locations of the anti-Muslim violence, also follows.
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/meiktila-report-may-2013.html
Map 1: PHR-Verified Destruction of Mosques and Islamic Schools in the City of Meiktila, Burma, 20-23 March, 2013.
Map 2: Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma, March–April 2013. This map was produced using information from publicly available media sources.
The narrative recounts how students and teachers at Mingalar Zayyone Islamic boarding school for boys continued with afternoon classes and evening dinner even after learning of violence in the city center; remained in the school compound as it was surrounded by armed men; fled to a boggy field to hide during the night; were flushed out and sought refuge in a nearby walled residential compound, parts of which were then set on fire; were forced to march the next morning through a gauntlet of armed assailants to a convoy of military trucks; and eventually were transported to a police station, from which their families eventually retrieved them. It also recounts the experiences of Muslim neighbors caught up in the violence, and of a national politician who observed the event.
The narrative includes eyewitness accounts of Muslims being intimidated and terrorized; forced to eat pork and pray in the Buddhist manner; assaulted with sticks, pipes, bricks, stones, slingshots, knives, and swords; and murdered, including by being burned alive.
Meanwhile, armed riot police at the scene did little or nothing to intervene to prevent or halt the attacks.
The complete composite narrative of
events, as recounted by eyewitnesses,
is available in the full report here:
physiciansforhumanrights.org/meiktilareport-2013.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/Burma-Meiktila-Massacre-Executive-Summary-May-2013.pdf
