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Myanmar: Buddhist group attacks Muslims
NGO says dozens may have been killed, while government denies attacks on religious minority in remote part of country
January 17, 2014 8:45AM ET
A Muslim barber gives a customer a haircut at a roadside barber shop as a street vendor sells vegetables in The' Chaung village in Rakhine state, Myanmar on Jan. 17, 2014. The’ Chaung houses camps for displaced Muslims following sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims.
Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP
More than a dozen people may have been killed after a Buddhist group rampaged through a town in an isolated corner of Myanmar, hacking Muslim women and children with knives, a rights group reported Friday.
A government official said the situation was tense but denied any deaths.
Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million people, has been grappling with sectarian violence for nearly two years. More than 240 people have been killed and another 250,000, mostly Muslims, forced to flee their homes.
Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, an advocacy group that documents abuses against members of the Rohingya Muslim minority, told The Associated Press that details about the violence that occurred early Tuesday morning in northern Rakhine state were still emerging, with many conflicting reports.
It is one of the most isolated regions in the country, both politically and geographically, and access to foreigners is denied or severely restricted. The death toll could range anywhere between 10 and 60, said Lewa, whose sources range from a village administrator to witnesses.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which runs a nearby clinic, said it was concerned that residents who fled the area may need medical care.
"MSF confirms that on Wednesday it saw two wounded people suffering from injuries inflicted as a result of violence — one from a gunshot wound and the other exhibiting injuries consistent with a beating," Peter-Paul de Groote, head of MSF's Myanmar mission, told Reuters.
Religious minority
Tensions have been building in the region since last month, when monks from a Buddhist extremist movement known as 969toured the area and gave sermons by loudspeaker advocating the expulsion of all Rohingya, who make up 90 percent of the population in northern Rakhine. It's the only place where the religious minority is in the majority.
A volunteer English teacher who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals said an initial flare-up followed the discovery of three bodies in a ditch near Du Char Yar Tan village.
Villagers alerted the friends and neighbors of a group of eight Rohingya who went missing after being detained by authorities days earlier, and a group returned to the bodies with cell phones to take pictures, the teacher said.
When police went to the village to confiscate the phones and check family lists, a crowd turned on the officers, beating and chasing them off, the English teacher said. The police returned at 2 a.m., saying one of their men had gone missing, he said, which triggered a security crackdown.
Soldiers and police surrounded the village, breaking down doors and looting livestock and other valuables. Almost all the men fled, leaving the women, children and elderly behind, he said.
Lewa said her sources reported that Rohingya women and children had been hacked to death, but the numbers varied widely. Some put the death toll as low as five or 10, but one source who works for the administration in Maungdaw town said it is widely believed 40 died, mostly women and children.
That some of the victims appeared to have been stabbed with knives, not shot or beaten, "would clearly indicate the massacre was committed by (Buddhist) Rakhine villagers, rather than the police or army," the Arakan Project wrote in a briefing Thursday.
The English teacher, who spoke by telephone, said 17 women and five children were killed.
Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing said police had surrounded the village because they were looking for the policeman who went missing, but that he was not aware that anyone had been killed.
Khin Maung Than, a Muslim who lives in a neighboring village, said he visited Du Char Yar Tan and had seen no evidence of violence or deaths there.
Tensions have been reported for days, but getting information is difficult. Northern Rakhine, which is home to 80 percent of the country's 1 million Rohingya, runs along the Bay of Bengal and is cut off from the rest of the country by a mountain range.
Some of the people there descend from families that have been there generations. Others arrived more recently from neighboring Bangladesh. All have been denied citizenship, rendering them stateless.
For decades, they have been unable to travel freely, practice their religion, or work as teachers or doctors. They need special approval to marry and are the only people in the country barred from having more than two children.
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So this is your response? To over 27,000 terrorist attacks in the name of Islam? ONE article?
google is your friend this isnt spoon feeding class! I have done this much if you can find enough BS to create the amount of ignorance and hate you live in, I am sure you can google this!
Then either you are lying or just dumb as I just posted 1 picture to I have you a QUICK view of 4mths!
If that is how you see it...then there is little one can do to please you coz nothing will satisfy you!
because everything that you dont agree with is nonsense So following that logic all you say is nonsense!
No but he is a non Mulsim a state leader of a state which actually told you the BS stuck in your head!
Is that what it looks like to you?
Have you seen any of the photos on media? Where ISIS are posing infront of American weapons....Unless America was selling them and not giving the m away freely to rebels (which is again in news help yourself)
Its an example and its all over the net now...Unless of course you live in a village and only creep out to blast hatred you would have seen it by now...Unless of course you have no friends from abroad....that can explain it too!
How is it irrelevant? Students are not Wahabi? Or only those who blow themselves are Wahabi?
Why what you say is relevant but facts that are against your logic are irrelevant?
Do thousands of Saudi student not go to uni abroad? Are they not Wahabi? (News tells us there is only 1 type of Islam in whole of Saudi which you were blatantly addressing
How did you conclude this? You believe in Osama and Baghdadi but fail to understand logic/ research and reasoning? WOW!
1) MOST of those groups are still operational
2) I dont give 2 hoots about who they are....And international body? Try state funded! And you can read about it!
Wow reject everything research and media reports which counters you but accept everything to continue hating! tup: yup typical indian!
Wikipedia is not a report! I would use it for definition but not as a report!
I have already told you nothing Islamic about it!
the religion of peace .com is a blog anyone can make one!
But for you anything non Islamic holds higher value than research, media reports and even CIAGO TROLL GO!
why should I provide everything...You copied pasted anti Islamic
So when countered about the CIA report, you have none. About instances of terrorism from sources apart from Islam you don't care, but will mention their existence nonetheless. As for Rania's claim that "this is NOT the real Islam", we have to take her word for it, and that of Wahhabi clerics who otherwise spend their lives preaching hatred and violence.
Nice talking to you, have a good day.
