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ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN, BURMA  PRESS RELEASE  (23 March 2013)  STOP SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF MUSLIM IN BURMA Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) strongly condemns the increasing anti-Muslim propaganda and organized killings of the Muslims in Burma/Myanmar. Since Wednesday March 20, many Muslims were killed, at least 14 mosques with hundreds of Muslim homes were destroyed, shops damaged and looted, and more than 20,000 displaced in the central Burma town of Meiktila and around the airport area of capital Naypyidaw. The violence spread to Yameithein tonight where a mosque was destroyed. A lot of Muslim residents have fled their homes. Extremist Buddhist mobs with Buddhist monks armed with sticks and lethal weapons are prowling the streets and hunting the Muslims. 4 Islamic religiousteachers and 28 madrassa students, who included children as young as 12 years old, were among those killed. The police and security forces did noth...

Muslims rest as they take refuge at a stadium amid riots in Meikhtila March 22, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun   Mayu Press: March 23, 2013 By Mohamed Farooq There are about 3,500 Muslims displaced to open sky before midnight of 21 March. Most of them are women and children in district stadium of Meiktila.                                                     In a quarter, there are about 500 people. Among them, 100 are children and 200 are women and elders. They are hiding in fear as Buddhists are gathering there and making noises since afternoon. They are fleeing and hiding out of food and water. In another ward, there are about 2,000 people consist of 600 families. Communication lines had been cut off. Another 1,50...

In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, a group of people try to destroy a building in Meikhtila, Mandalay division (AP Photo) The charred bodies of Muslim who were burnt alive by terrorist Buddhist mob and monks called 969 campaign with the presence of police in Meiktilar city, Myanmar. The police and authorities were not stopping them to kill Muslim, to burn Muslim and their homes and to torch the Mosques in broad day light. Photo Credit - Maung Nyan The charred bodies of Muslim who were burnt alive by terrorist Buddhist mob and monks called 969 campaign with the presence of police in Meiktilar city, Myanmar. The police and authorities were not stopping them to kill Muslim, to burn Muslim and their homes and to torch the Mosques in broad day light. Photo  Credit - Maung Nyan A body is seen on a street in Meikhtila on Thursday. (Photo: Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun) Unidentified man photographs bodies burning in the wake of sectarian r...

Army trucks line up along a road in downtown Meikhtila on March 23. For more photos click on the box below. (Photo: Teza Hlaing / The Irrawaddy ) Irrawaddy News: March 23, 2013  MEIKHTILA — Smoldering debris and charred buildings littered the Muslim quarter of Meikhtila in central Burma on Saturday as the army was brought in to end days of violence. Relative calm returned to the town on Saturday after the army was brought in to patrol the streets following nearly three days of clashes between Buddhists and Muslims, which left an unconfirmed number of people dead. Security forces escorted about 6,000 Muslims to a stadium in the town where they were being held. The football stadium, located nearly two miles from the center of Meikhtila, has been turned into a makeshift camp, where the Muslims have made temporary shelters from tarpaulin and thatch. “I don’t even know how to express my fear when I learned about what happened to my fellow Muslims,” said Kyaw ...