PRESS RELEASE: Myanmar / Burma – Eyewitnesses explain brutality of continued attacks against Muslims

27.3.13

PRESS RELEASE: Myanmar / Burma – Eyewitnesses explain brutality of continued attacks against Muslims: Local Buddhists help save Muslims from slaughter by supremacists

IHRC has been highlighting the pervasiveness of anti-Muslim rhetoric and hatred in Myanmar for several years[1]. Despite the country’s so-called transition process to democracy, Muslim minorities, including but not solely the Rohingya, have been targeted by violence and hatred by groups asserting a supremacist Buddhist identity.

Violence in the last year including two massacres, were initially focused on the Rohingya Muslims. However, reports from the ground now confirm that attacks against various Muslim communities have now begun. Muslims in total form about 13% of the Burmese population[2].

Reporting from Myanmar, Assed Baig states: