(Eleven Media Group)- Dozens of Rakhine people were killed amidst the
Rohingya terrorist attacks in border town of Maungdaw in Rakhine State,
the western part of Myanmar on Friday.
Due to the violence,
hundreds of houses and buildings were burnt down by mobs, said the
reporter Ko Win Maung of the Eleven Media at the scene.
The death
toll in the incident has reached 20 to 30 until the night of 8 June and
the injured persons nearby villages of Maundaw Township are flooding
into Maungdaw hospital.
The onset of the violence on 8 June was
that the Rohingya Muslims who returned from the mosque yesterday
afternoon started throwing the stones to the Rakhine houses and
buildings in Maungdaw Townships, according to the Eleven Media reporter
whose house was also blazed amidst the violence.
As the riots
could not be controlled, the police forces took security measures in the
town where Muslims are majority and Rakhine people are minority.
Rohingya mobs were setting fire on the nearby villages of Rakhine
ethnics, said a Buddhist monk who resides in Maungdaw Township.
Due
to these unrests, the State-owned media aired the announcement of
Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Curfew) which states people
are not to go outside between 18:00 pm and 06:00 am in Maungdaw and
Buthedaung townships.
In contrary to the reporting of foreign
media, the army did not fire at the mobs, but just warning shots to the
riot to help the security measures of police forces, according to the
EMG reporter in Maundaw Township where the clashes are happening.
Highly
prominent journalist Dr. Than Htut Aung, Chairman and CEO of the Eleven
Media Group said, “Up to now, the handling of army in this violence is
smooth and flexible. It was reportedly known that the military fired
only the warning shots. Although the case seemed to be the problem
between the Muslims and the Buddhists, there may be some incitements
behind the incident.”
As the Rohingya mobs are approaching to
enter the town and nearby villages, the security forces are taking
places there and conducting warning fires to them.
“The
situations in Maungdaw Township are very serious. The problem should be
solved by legal procedures. We do not accept anarchic actions. Security
forces concerned should settle the problem systematically. We must
control the situation not to spread. If the problem becomes bigger, it
is possible to result in series of cases. I warned the possibility of
problems in Maungdaw after the case of Sittway. These attacks would
seriously threaten to Arakanese people not only in Buthidaung and
Maungdaw townships, but also in some areas with minority of them. The
government has responsibilities to calm down the worries of these
people. In the future, the security of border area in Rakhine State
should be taken by Rakhine people, and that of Shan State by Shan
people. Paramilitary forces should be organized to safeguard the
security of respective areas. The government should allow more security
plans. We will also submit these plans to the parliament. If this
incident is similar to massacre of 1942 which was intentionally plotted,
the persons behind the curtain are responsible for the consequences.
Security persons, international figures and religious leaders should not
neglect the case. They should cooperate in solving this problem,” said
Chairman Dr. Aye Maung of the Rakhine Ethnics Development Party.
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