One Region in Myanmar Limits Births of Muslims

[Drett]

YANGON, Myanmar — The local authorities in the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing during earlier sectarian violence.


Officials said Saturday that the new measure would be applied to two Rakhine townships that border Bangladesh and that have the highest Muslim populations in the state.


The unusual order makes Myanmar perhaps the only country in the world to impose such a restriction on a religious group, and it is likely to fuel further criticism that Muslims are being discriminated against in the Buddhist-majority country.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/world/asia/a-region-in-myanmar-limits-births-of-muslims.html

 

[Drett]

The burning of the mosque and other buildings took place on Tuesday evening and followed a pattern seen elsewhere in Myanmar of the police and military units’ being unwilling or unable to disperse angry crowds of Buddhists.


Lauri Nio, a student from Finland visiting Lashio, said the first police units arrived two hours after groups of men set fire to the mosque and began destroying shops. The police stayed for only a few minutes, he said, and when a larger contingent of police and military units returned later in the night, they closed off the streets but did not confront the rioters.


Groups of men gathered in the market “shouting, cheering and singing Burmese nationalist songs” as they destroyed shops, he said.


Video from the city posted on Facebook on Wednesday by the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Myanmar online news service, showed what now have become familiar scenes in the country of burned-out buildings and charred motorcycles.


As with previous bouts of violence in central Myanmar, journalists were singled out.


“They hit me on the head with a metal rod,” Mr. Khun Zaw Oo said. The mobs also removed and destroyed memory cards from his camera, he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/religious-violence-myanmar.html

 

[Drett]

Sectarian clashes in Myanmar is currently getting out of hand as the aggression on Muslims continue in Myanmar.


Federal government has actually now called for restful after mobs refuted a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops throughout a brand-new eruption of religious physical violence in the north-eastern Shan state.


Authorities enforced a curfew behind time on Tuesday in Lashio, regarding 700km northeast of Yangon, after a mob of 200 regional residents bordered the city authorities station demanding they turn over a Muslim detainee.

On April 30, in Oakkan, about 100km north of Yangon, Buddhists went on a rampage after a Muslim woman allegedly bumped into a monk, breaking his begging bowl.


One Muslim man was killed, and a mosque and 77 houses were set on fire.


In March at least 44 people were killed in sectarian strife in in Meiktila, 450km north of Yangon, where at least 8,000 people, most of them Muslims, were left homeless in riots sparked by an apparent row at a Muslim-owned gold shop.

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[Nautilus]

Im curious are you a muslim?

 

[Drett]

Im curious are you a muslim?

I thought everyone knew by now. You must not have read Pete Waldo attempts to convert me by telling me I am a dirt bag.