Black smoke rises
from burning buildings as residents ride motorcycles in a street in riot-hit
Meiktila, central Myanmar on March 21, 2013. — AFP
Mayu Press:
March 21, 2013
By Mohamed Farooq
The Buddhist mobs
killed 28 religious students and 4 teachers in Hamayatul Islam Religious Arabic
School (Maddarasa) of Mingalar Zayyu village under Meiktilar Township at about
6.30 AM, 21st March 2013.
Among the burnt down
houses and buildings, Maddarasa Hamayatul Islam was the biggest one in Mingalar
Zayyu village. The Buddhist extremists were entire night feeling free to mass
kill, and attack Muslims and torch up houses with the Marshal Law Act-144 not
to out but there is no barrier and attachment for Buddhist racists by security
personnel and Army. At the night of 3 AM, a Buddhist merciful family situated
near the Religious School had called and brought all the Muslim religious
teachers and students to his house for the life safety. The Muslim religious
school burnt into ashes around 4 AM by the racists.
At the morning 6 AM,
Buddhist extremists group surrounded the house of Buddhist where Muslim
students and teachers were sleeping with fear and tiredness. They asked the
house owner to get out all the Muslims and shouted with iron arrows, swords,
knife, iron rods, long bamboo and wood sticks. The Buddhist kind-hearted family
requested them not to attack those Muslims as most of them are orphans and parentless
came from far distances to acquire religious education and nothing else. The
terrorists torched up the Buddhist house to come out all the Muslim students
and teachers.
The Buddhist mobs
brutally hit with their handed dangerous instruments till to death 28 students
and 4 teachers in front of Army, Police and Hlun Tin (Riot police).
List of teachers
killed by Buddhist mobs:
Maulana Mohammad
Shafi,45,
Maulana Zakaria,40,
Mufti Wazib,30, and
another one