Maungdaw, Arakan State: Police personnel are watching the Rohingya villages of Maungdaw at night after Massacre of 10 - Muslim by a gang of Rakhine racists in Taungup on June 3, according to an officer from Maungdaw.
YANGON, June 6, 2012 (AFP) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday urged the nation's Buddhist population to show “sympathy” with minorities following an outbreak of sectarian unrest in western Rakhine.
NAYPYIDAW – The grisly killing of several Muslim passengers by Buddhist vigilantes is reflecting a growing anti-Muslim hostility in Myanmar and a pervasive discrimination of the sizable minority. Many believe that the latest episode of violence reflects the deep divisions between the majority Buddhists and the Muslim minority
An eruption in religious tensions in Myanmar has exposed the deep divisions between the majority Buddhists and the country's Muslims, considered foreigners despite a decades-long presence.
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Natala (model) villagers chopped a cow of Rohingya villager of Maungdaw Township for meat while the cow was grazing in a grazing ground nearby a hill yesterday morning, said a close relative of the victim.
Abid Bahar A lesson needed to be learned by the Rakhine Moghs after it lost its legendary Arakan kingdom that anarchy and hatred against others in society could also be self-inflicting that it creates division within the society causing outsiders to interfere in its internal affairs.
Aung San Suu Kyi talks to Burmese Muslims leaders at the National League for Democracy head office in Rangoon on 6 June 2012. (Reuters) Burmese state media has issued a retraction for the use of racially offensive language in its official appeal for calm after sectarian violence saw ten Muslims brutally killed by an angry mob on Sunday in Arakan state