Ny uro i Burma

Kon­flik­ten mel­lom bud­dhis­ter og den mus­limske folke­grup­pen Rohin­gya har blus­set opp igjen i Bruma. Tre mel­des drept.

Rohin­gya er stats­løse, og Human Rights Watch kri­ti­se­rer myn­dig­he­tene for å stå pas­sive og se på ven­det­taer, og for å behandle Rohin­gya dårlig.

Vol­den ble utløst av en vold­tekt på en bud­dhis­tisk kvinne. Ti Rohin­gya ble lyn­sjet som hevn.

Renewed vio­lence between Bud­dhists and Mus­lim Rohin­gya has left three people dead in Myan­mar, a govern­ment offi­cial said on Mon­day, amid growing inter­na­tio­nal con­cern about the secta­rian unrest.
The figh­ting in western Rak­hine state has kil­led 80 people from both sides since June, offi­cial figu­res show, alt­hough aut­hori­ties say the situa­tion has been gene­rally calm in recent weeks.
The new casu­al­ties, who were not iden­ti­fied, died on Sun­day in Kyauk­taw about 100 kilo­met­res (60 miles) north of the state capi­tal Sit­twe, said the offi­cial, who did not want to be named. Five others were reported woun­ded.
“The situa­tion is calm and back to nor­mal alre­ady,” the offi­cial told AFP. “We do not know why it star­ted again.“
The vio­lence initi­ally broke out in June following the rape and mur­der of a Rak­hine woman and the sub­se­quent lyn­ching of 10 Mus­lims by a crowd of angry Bud­dhists.
The bloods­hed has cast a sha­dow over widely praised reforms by Pre­si­dent Thein Sein, inclu­ding the release of hund­reds of poli­ti­cal pri­so­ners and the election of oppo­sition lea­der Aung San Suu Kyi to par­lia­ment.
Myanmar’s govern­ment has rejected accu­sa­tions of abuse by security for­ces in Rak­hine, after the Uni­ted Nations raised fears of a crackdown on Mus­lims.
The entire state has been under emer­gency rule since early June with a heavy army and police pre­sence.
New York-based Human Rights Watch has accu­sed Myan­mar for­ces of ope­ning fire on Rohin­gya, as well as com­mit­ting rape and stan­ding by as rival mobs attacked each other.
The aut­hori­ties fai­led to pro­tect both sides and then “unleashed a cam­paign of vio­lence and mass roundups against the Rohin­gya,” the group said in a report released last week.
Deca­des of discri­mi­na­tion have left the Rohin­gya sta­te­less, and they are viewed by the Uni­ted Nations as one of the world’s most perse­cuted minori­ties.
Speak­ing a Ben­gali dia­lect simi­lar to one in neigh­bou­ring Bang­la­desh, the Rohin­gya are seen as ille­gal immi­grants by the Myan­mar govern­ment and many Burmese, and many have attemp­ted to flee over­seas in rick­ety boats. AFP