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| Buddhist-Muslim Violence Spreads in Myanmar |
| 2013-03-25 |
| Karma is a bitch. The Buddhists are supposed to be good little dhimmis and submit to their Muslim overlords. It says so in the Koran. Anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in Myanmar's predominantly Buddhist heartland over the weekend, destroying mosques and burning dozens of homes despite government efforts to stem the nation's latest outbreak of sectarian violence. President Thein Sein had declared an emergency in central Myanmar on Friday and deployed army troops to the worst-hit city, Meikhtila, where 32 people were killed and 10,000 mostly Muslim residents were displaced. But even as soldiers restored order there after several days of anarchy in which armed Buddhists torched the city's Muslim quarters, the unrest has spread south toward the capital, Naypyitaw. A Muslim resident of Tatkone, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Meikhtila, said by telephone that a group of about 20 men ransacked a one-story brick mosque there late Sunday night, pelting it with stones and smashing windows before soldiers fired shots to drive them away. Speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, he said he believed the perpetrators were not from Tatkone. A day earlier, another mob burned down a mosque and 50 homes in the nearby town of Yamethin, state television reported. Another mosque and several buildings were destroyed the same day in Lewei, farther south. It was not immediately clear who was behind the violence, and no clashes or casualties were reported in the three towns. The upsurge in sectarian unrest is casting a shadow over Thein Sein's administration as it struggles to make democratic changes in the Southeast Asian country after half a century of army rule officially ended two years ago this month. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 ..who were/are, respectively, practicing Shintoism, Confucianism & Taoism and much latter Marxism. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-25 17:42 |
| #10 "But Buddhists are peaceful!" Tell that to Imperial Japan. Or China. Or Vietnam... |
| Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-03-25 17:03 |
| #9 The most peaceful religion in the world is pissed off!That says it all about living with Islam/muslims. Every religion should join hands and kick their butt! |
| Posted by: Harcourt Elmomorong1212 2013-03-25 15:30 |
| #8 Interesting how Christians and Buddhists have been slaughtered in Indonesia and Thailand for *YEAR* and not a peep out of ABC News. But now that the Budhists are defending themselves its suddenly *BIG* *NEWS*. And notice how they only interview the Muslim *victims* and not any Buddhists as to a motive or anything. If muslims riot, burn, rape, and kill over some slight its perfectly alright with the Media.... but if anyone else does it's a different story. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-03-25 13:20 |
| #7 As I keep pointing out, this is Myanmar. The central government in Myanmar has been working up nominal Buddhists to kill and/or disenfranchise and/or (to put it bluntly) enslave (via drafting into long-term corvee labor) other Buddhists whose only offense was being of Shan descent for the last sixty years or so. And they had very little attention from ABC, or Al Jazeera, or the last UAE press outlet whose coverage of this hit Rantburg. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-03-25 12:11 |
| #6 Was just thinking that myself, Bill. How annoying do you have to be to piss off a Buddhist? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-03-25 11:52 |
| #5 Hmmm, Boy howdy, I didn't know you could work a Buddhist up like that...wowsers. I guess the Moslems don't like the push back on their thug tactics and intimidation? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-25 09:52 |
| #4 I'll be in central Myanmar next month. I'll report if I see anything interesting. Thank you, phil_b. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-25 09:16 |
| #3 And now Sri Lanka. |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-03-25 06:11 |
| #2 I'll be in central Myanmar next month. I'll report if I see anything interesting. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2013-03-25 05:24 |
| #1 Meanwhile in Indonesia. |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-03-25 04:32 |