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\"\"Terrified Muslim families on the hide in Burma forests a day after fleeing new sectarian violence that erupted in the divided region.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are living in fear,\u201d Myint Aung, a local Muslim official, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Wednesday, September 2.<\/span>
\u201cMany people, including women and children, are hiding in the forest nearby.<\/span>
“We are disappointed that we have a government that is unable to provide security for us,\u201d he added.<\/span>
Terrified Muslims are hiding in fear of their lives after around 800 Buddhist rioters torched homes and attacked local Muslims in a village in the area of Thandwe on Tuesday.<\/span>
At least five Muslims were killed by Buddhist mobs in the Burmese state of Rakhine on Tuesday, police say.<\/span>
A 94-year-old Muslim woman, who suffered stab wounds, was among the dead.<\/span>
“The death toll rose to five – four men and a woman,” a Rakhine police official who did not want to be named told AFP on Wednesday, adding that the victims were all killed during Tuesday’s violence.<\/span>
Four Rakhine Buddhists were injured in clashes and a fifth was missing, while 59 houses and a mosque have been torched since tensions flared on Saturday, police said.<\/span>
Initial police reports confirmed that at least 100 Muslims houses and a mosque were torched and 50 were injured during the rampage which started earlier on Saturday.<\/span>
Around 250 people have been killed and more than 140,000 left homeless in several outbreaks of inter-religious violence around the country since June 2012, mostly in Rakhine.<\/span>
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been forced to flee their homes in western Burma since June after attacks from Buddhist mobs on their areas.<\/span>
The anti-Muslim violence spread to central Burma earlier this year, leaving scores of people dead.<\/span>
The violence has displaced nearly 29,000 people, more than 97 percent of whom are Rohingya Muslims, according to the United Nations.<\/span>
Many now live in camps, adding to 75,000 mostly Rohingya displaced in June 2012, after a previous explosion of sectarian violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Minor\u2019 Crimes<\/strong><\/span>
Appalled by the sectarian Buddhist rampage, Burma’s Muslims organizations have called on the government to secure their protection.<\/span>
“The concerns of minority Muslims around the country have reached peak levels. They feel they have no security,\u201d four major Burmese Muslim organizations said in a letter sent to President Thein Sein on Tuesday which was cited by AAP.<\/span>
The Muslim organizations urged the government to implement an urgent ‘law-enforcement action’, to protect the prosecuted Muslims minority.<\/span>
“We demand that the government ensures the rule of law in order to protect us,” the statement said.<\/span>
“The Muslim minority is feeling great sorrow after being attacked and we are now living in a high state of fear,\u201d it added.<\/span>
Thein Sein held meetings with members of Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim communities during his two-day tour.<\/span>
In a message to a multi-faith conference, which was carried in state media on Wednesday, Thein Sein lamented \u201cinstigations fuelling minor crimes into conflicts between the two communities and two religions.\u201d<\/span>
\u201cSuch instability based on religion and race harms and delays the state reforms and tarnishes the national image internationally,\u201d he warned.<\/span>
Burma\u2019s Muslims — largely of Indian, Chinese and Bangladeshi descent — account for an estimated four percent of the roughly 60 million population.<\/span>
Muslims entered Burma en masse for the first time as indentured laborers from the Indian subcontinent during British colonial rule, which ended in 1948.<\/span>
But despite their long history, they have never fully been integrated into the country, widely considered as foreigners.<\/span>
Last year, scores of Muslims were killed and thousands were forced to flee their homes after sectarian clashes with the Buddhist majority in the western state of Rakhine.<\/span>
Most of the victims were Muslim Rohingya and many remain in camps they are not allowed to leave.<\/span>
Rights groups have accused the Burmese security forces of killing, raping and arresting Rohingyas following the violence.<\/span>
In April, more than 40 people were killed and several mosques were burnt in central Burma after a dispute between Muslims and Buddhists in Meikhtila.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span> OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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