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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Violence between Buddhists and Muslims killed more than 100 in riots in Burma

For days there is violence between Muslims and Buddhists in Burma.Join more than 100 people were killed. The riots are now available for the opposition under Aung San Suu Kyi to the problem. 
The prolonged for days of violent clashes between Buddhist and Muslim ethnic groups are reported to authorities in the west of Burma since 112 people were killed.Moreover, in Rakhine State nearly 2,000 houses were burned, such as government agencies announced on Friday.  More than 70 people, including ten children, were injured in the riots that take place between the communities of Buddhist Rakhine and the Rohingya Muslim. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the government of Burma because of the "deeply disturbing" violence to "work to take urgent necessary steps to regain control of lawlessness to be." In a statement by President Thein Sein, which was published on Friday in the state-owned newspaper "Myanma Ahlin" warned against the consequences of the riots. "As the international community closely watching the process of democratization, such disturbances can tarnish the image of the country". Police and army would try to establish peace and security again, the report said. Moreover, being taken against any individual or organization, "the attempt to reignite the unrest."His foundation, the conflict in the status of the Rohingya. Although many of them have lived for several generations in Burma, they are in many places more than strangers from neighboring Bangladesh, steal the scarce land. They still live mainly along the border with Bangladesh and are not recognized as a distinct ethnic group of Burma. A multinational state, there are a total of 135 Burmese ethnic groups. Back in June at such excesses were 90 people were killed and about 3,000 houses were set on fire. Tens of thousands of people are living in refugee camps ever since. The violence broke out after the men of the Rohingya minority have been accused of raping a girl from the ethnic group of Rakhine. The riots are not only a problem for the government of Thein Sein, but also for cooperating with it in the democratization Oppositonsführerin Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel Peace laureate has been criticized for not sufficiently related to the oppression of the Rohingya position to have.

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