Hard hit to Islam by Buddhist Retaliation in Myanmar. Muslims may attack and take revenge over Non-Muslims in other places. Take self defense.

Myanmar riots stoke fears of widening sectarian violence :: Reuters.

ISLAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CENTER POINT TO DESTROY WORLD PEACE.

Meikhtila, Myanmar | Fri Mar 22, 2013 :: Unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in central Myanmar has reduced neighbourhoods to ashes and stoked fears that last year’s sectarian bloodshed is spreading into the country’s heartland in a test of Asia’s newest democracy.

Buildings in Meikhtila were still burning early on Friday and agitated Buddhist crowds roamed the otherwise near-deserted streets after three days of turbulence, said Reuters reporters in the city 540 km (336 miles) north of the commercial capital Yangon.

Five people, including a Buddhist monk, have been killed and dozens wounded since Wednesday, state media reported. Other authorities put the death toll at 10 or higher.

The unleashing of ethnic hatred, suppressed during 49 years of military rule that ended in March 2011, is challenging the reformist government of one of Asia’s most ethnically diverse countries.

Jailed dissidents have been released, a free election held and censorship lifted in Myanmar’s historic democratic transition. But the government has faced mounting criticism over its failure to stop the bloodshed between Buddhists and Muslims.

“I am really sad over what happened here because this is not just happening to one person. It’s affecting all of us,” said Maung Maung, a Buddhist ward leader in Meikhtila.

Hundreds of Muslims have fled their homes to shelter at a sports stadium, said local officials. The unrest is a bloody reprise of last year’s violence in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, which officially killed 110 people and left 120,000 people homeless, most of them stateless Rohingya Muslims.

Updates: Emergency Declared In Myanmar As Death Toll Reaches 20; Sparks Fears Of Sectarian Violence Rocking Mainland: IBT.

 

BURNING MOSQUE, ARMED RESIDENTS

Locals complained there were too few police in this city of about 180,000 people to subdue the unrest. It erupted after an argument between a Buddhist couple and the Muslim owners of a gold shop spiralled into a riot involving hundreds of people, said police.

Reuters saw some Meikhtila residents arming themselves with knives and sticks in an eerie echo of the Rakhine violence in 2012, when pitched battles between the two communities later morphed into orchestrated attacks on Muslim communities by organised gangs of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.

The United Nations warned the sectarian unrest could endanger a fragile reform programme launched after Myanmar’s quasi-civilian government replaced a decades-old military dictatorship in 2011.

“Religious leaders and other community leaders must also publicly call on their followers to abjure violence, respect the law and promote peace,” Vijay Nambiar, U.N. special adviser of the secretary-general, said in a statement.

Myanmar is a predominantly Buddhist country, but about 5 percent of its 60 million people are Muslims. There are large and long-established communities in Yangon and Mandalay, Myanmar’s two largest cities, where tensions are simmering.

“Everyone is in shock here. We never expected this to happen,” said a Muslim teacher in Mandalay, requesting anonymity.

Rumours that violent agitators were heading for the city had set its Muslim community on edge, he said. Buddhist monks known for their anti-Islamic views last year staged several street protests in Mandalay.

In Meikhtila, at least one mosque, an Islamic religious school, several shops and a government office were set alight, said a fire service official, who declined to be named. Reuters saw both Buddhist and Muslim homes burned.

Sectarian unrest is common in central Myanmar, although reports were stifled under the military dictatorship.

Three people died in Sinbyukyun in 2006 when Buddhists attacked homes and shops belonging to Muslims and ethnic Indians, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable.

“The incident reveals underlying tense inter-ethnic relations in the heartland,” said the cable, which also referenced similar communal riots in Kyaukse, a town near Meikhtila, in 2003. (Writing by Andrew R.C. Marshall; Editing by Jason Szep)

Courtesy: Reuters | AP | AFP | The Daily Star.

3 comments on “Hard hit to Islam by Buddhist Retaliation in Myanmar. Muslims may attack and take revenge over Non-Muslims in other places. Take self defense.”

1. S KUMAR

   March 22, 2013

   

   ALL MUSLIM REFUGEES FROM NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES HAVE A SAFE ASYLUM WITH VOTING RIGHTS AND FREE FOOD IN THE COWARDLY RULE OF UPA IN INDIA.

   HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THOUSAND OF ROHINGIA MUSLIMS WHO WERE REFUSED ASYLUM BY BANGLADESH, WERE ESCORTED BY THE M.P. OWAISI FROM BANGLA BORDER AND SETTLED IN HYDERABAD?

   AND UPA MEETS THE EXPENSES OF ALL THESE REFUGEES FROM HINDU TAX PAYERS’ MONEY AND LATER THESE REFUGEES TURN ANTI-NATIONALS AND TERRORISTS FATTENED BY HINDU TAX PAYERS’ FUNDS

   SHOULD WE NOT THROW OUT THIS IMBECILE CONGRESS LED GOVT. RUN ONLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHRISTIANS AND MISSIONARIES/ CHRISTIANS WITH HINDU-S SUFFERING IN POVERTY?

   S KUMAR.

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2. Gautam Sen

   March 23, 2013

   

   They will only loot Hindu property and kill some of them since they will
   offer themselves to apologise for events in Myanmar, led by that saintly
   British woman agent now! And secular India will quietly sigh in relief!

   GS

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3. Surinder Paul Attri

   March 26, 2013

   

   Subj: Rohingya-Moslems of Myanmar, the illegal-migrants from Bangladesh

   1. Despite spartan efforts of the government of Myanmar & of its army, sectarian clashes between the Buddhist & Moslem populations of Myanmar, appear to be spsreading rather than diminish & die out. Moslems of Myanmar are mostly Rohingya-Moslems, who are regarded by the Buddhists of Myanmar, as the problem people, because they are illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

   2. Moslems of Bangladesh are used to jumping over fences, and transplanting themselves across into neighboring areas, such as the state of Assam & the state of West Bengal, in India, in addition to entry into Myanmar. In India, the Moslem migrants from Bangladesh, have gotten away with their formidable knock-off entry into India. Hindus of India, are used to taking SH** from Islam, but the Buddhists of Myanmarr, are not so genial or receptive, towards the Rohingya-Moslems. They believe that these illegal migrants must be punished & deported to Bangladesh.

   3. The measure of this problem is quite large & lofty. The anti-Rohingya Moslem violence, is not limited to Rakhine & Rohingya areas of Myanmar, but has spread to the heartland of Myanmar. The Buddhists of Myanmar, have no desire to copy the Indian example, of tolerating illegal-entry into Myanmar, and taking SH** from Islam. There are strong grievances of outrage & injury, against the illegal Moslem migrants. These grievance were papered over, during the authoritarain rule of the army, but are showing up in broad daylight, during the new democratice freedom of Myanmar.

   4. To be completely fair to everybody in Myanmar, and without affording undue advantage to any section of the Myanmar population, the Rohingya Moslems do not have a proper place any where in Myanmar, any more than they have such connection, inside the states of Assam & West Bengal, in India. They ought to be evacuated out of all areas of illegal-inhabitancy, and deported to Bangladesh.

   Surinder Paul Attri

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