According to media reports, the
extremists attacked the houses in two Muslim villages in the city of
Sittwe in the western Rakhine state, executing 11 Rohingya Muslims.
The silence of the human rights
organizations towards abuses against the Rohingya Muslims has emboldened
the extremist Buddhists and Myanmar’s government forces.
The Buddhist-majority government of Myanmar refuses to recognize
Rohingyas and has classified them as illegal migrants, even though the
Rohingyas are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish,
Bengali, and Pathan origin, who migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th
century.
According to reports, thousands of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are
living in dire conditions in refugee camps after government forces and
Buddhist extremists started burning down their villages on August 10.
Reports say some 650 Rohingyas have been killed in the Rakhine state
in the west of the country in recent months. This is while 1,200 others
are missing and 80,000 more have been displaced.
Source: Here
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