Two dead, mosques destroyed in Myanmar unrest–police

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YANGON–Two people including a Buddhist monk were killed and at least three mosques were destroyed after riots broke out in a town in central Myanmar, police said Thursday.

Around 200 people fought in the streets after an argument in a Muslim-owned gold shop turned violent in Meiktila on Wednesday, according to a post on Myanmar Police Force’s Facebook page.

“One injured monk and Than Myint Naing, 26, who were being treated for their injuries died from their burns at hospital,” it said.

Police imposed a curfew from evening to early morning to control the situation.

“People tried to burn down the mosques,” one local police officer told AFP.

The unrest comes amid heightened concerns over Muslim-Buddhist relations in Myanmar, where communal conflict in the western state of Rakhine has left at least 180 people dead and more than 110,000 displaced since June 2012.

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6 Replies to “Two dead, mosques destroyed in Myanmar unrest–police”

  2. “People tried to burn down the mosques,” one local police officer told AFP.” Good! let them. Better yet, here’s a novel idea, go grab your own torch and pitchfork, do your civic duty, and go help them burn more evil, hate-spewing mosques. This idea needs to spread to all four corners of the globe like wildfire! Free Mother Earth of the curse of these oppressive institutes of islamic hegemony.

  3. I’m sure i caught a glimpse of my ex-wife in one of those Videos.

  4. At least 10 dead in Myanmar riots: MP

    At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, an MP said Thursday, prompting international concern at the country’s worst communal unrest since a wave of Buddhist-Muslim clashes last year.

    Huge plumes of black smoke were seen rising above the town of Meiktila after buildings were set ablaze in a second day of fighting in the previously peaceful area, where a night-time curfew was imposed.

    Several mosques were reported to have been torched.

    The United States said it was “deeply concerned” by the unrest, which according to police erupted on Wednesday after an argument in a Muslim-owned gold shop intensified and caused about 200 people to fight in the streets.

    Win Htein, a member of the opposition National League for Democracy party, said he had seen bodies at the scene of fresh clashes Thursday.

    “More than 10 people were killed,” he told AFP from the town, which is his constituency seat.

    The unrest comes amid heightened tensions between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar.

    […]An AFP photographer who visited the town saw three burned bodies and houses on fire.

    “We’re scared. We keep the women and children at a safer building close to the police station,” a local resident said.

    Police said several mosques were destroyed and a Buddhist monk was among two killed on Wednesday, but they did not give an updated toll for Thursday.

    The local hospital said it had attended to five dead and 25 wounded.

    Myanmar’s Muslims — largely of Indian, Chinese and Bangladeshi descent — account for an estimated four percent of the roughly 60 million population, although the country has not conducted a census in three decades.

    Muslims entered Buddhist-majority Myanmar en masse as indentured labourers from the Indian subcontinent during British colonial rule which ended in 1948.

    But despite their long history, they have never fully been integrated into the country.

    Sectarian unrest has occasionally broken out in the past in some areas across the country, with Rakhine state a flashpoint for the tensions.

    Since violence broke out there last year, thousands of Muslim Rohingya boat people — including a growing number of women and children — have fled the conflict in rickety boats, many heading for Malaysia.

    Win Htein said there were around 30,000 Muslims in Meiktila out of a total population of around 80,000 but no similar clashes had happened in his lifetime.

    “I think it is a consequence of what happened in Rakhine state last year,” he added.

    http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/least-10-killed-myanmar-riots-074535808.html

  5. The difference in these videos is that they are trashing funiture and objects. No human corps.