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    Posted June 11, 2012 by
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    Current Ethnic-Religious Riots in the Rakhine (Arakan) State of Myanmar leads to “Ethnic Cleansing”

     
    In relation to the massacre of 10 Muslim pilgrims in “Taung-goup” township on 3rd June 2012, the Rohingya people in “Maungdaw” township held a special prayer for the departed souls and later they staged a peaceful demonstration on 8th June 2012. Local Rakhines (Arakanese) provoked the peaceful demonstrators with verbal abuses using racial slur “Ku-Lar” (Indian/ black-skin/dark-skin) and swearing. Soon, security forces started firing into the air as a warning, and shortly after, firing aim turned to the crowd. Two young men died on the spot while a dozen or more severely injured. Starting from that evening, the authority imposed curfew in “Maungdaw” township from dusk to dawn (6 PM to 6 AM) under the resolution 144. This biased resolution has been imposed on the Muslim Rohingya people only so that the Rakhines (Arakanese) can go out freely to loot and destroy the properties belongs to the Rohigya people.
    Local Rakhines (Arakanese) join the security forces, Nasaka (border guards), Hlun-tin (riot police) and police to rampage the Rohingya people. Within the curfew period, while the Rohingya people are inside their houses, security forces and the Rakhine (Arakanese) set fire on houses from ward to ward and village to village. Whenever people run out of houses that are on fire, they are being shot, and if dead, carried away by trucks of security. An unknown number of Rohingya people have been burnt to death inside the houses. Therefore, there’s no way to concretely say how many people are being killed.
    Sound of gun-shots are being heard sporadically and thus far following the Rohingya people were killed and known to general public: -Two people from Khasar Bil, age 25 and 27 -Two boys from Khainda Fara, age 10 and 12 -Two people from Hati Fara, Molvi Mohammed Salim, s/o Lalu, age 29, and Mohamed Zubair, s/o Mustak, age 35
    -At Ward #5, near the old prison, security forces along with the Rakhines killed 2 Rohinyga people at around 9:15pm. -Mohammed Rafique s/o Mohammed Yousuf, age 25 from Bomu Para -Molvi Habib Ullah, age 42 from Khazir Bil
    At least one Masjid at Ward #5, the house of former NDPH MP Faisal is confirmed burnt. Three houses of Razak, Lalu and a firewood trader, were set on fire at Ward #5 at about 4:00 pm by the Rakhines in front of security forces. When the Rohingya people rushed to the spot, the security force barred them by shooting.

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