(Translation of blog-posts direct
from various Burmese Blogs this week.)
This was what BERNAMA the National News Agency of Malaysia
reported under the headline “Myanmar Man Found Dead With Slash Wound In Selayang” on June 1, 2013.
“KUALA LAMPUR, June 1 (Bernama) – A Myanmar man was found
dead with a slash wound on his neck at Jalan 8/3A, Pusat Bandar Utara Selayang,
here Friday night. Sentul deputy police chief Supt Othman Abu Bakar said the
body was discovered by one of his countrymen at a back lane behind a shop at
10:15 pm.
“According to the
man, he earlier saw a group of men whom he did not recognize but believe to be
Myanmar nationals (Muslim Bengalis from Burma) train a torchlight at the
deceased’s head. He then went to Seri Muni, Selayang police station to report
the matter,” he said when contacted by Bernama.
Othman said the deceased who had not been identified, had a
12-centimetre wound on his neck. Police also found a knife near the scene of
incident. The remains had been sent to the Kuala Lampur Hospital, he said. -- BERNAMA”
Bengali-Muslims
Killing Buddhist-Burmese In Selayang
According to the small community of Burmese-Buddhist
workers in Selayang the recent violent confrontations between Buddhist-Burmese
and Bengali-Muslims there had so far resulted in two Burmese deaths and three
Buddhists severely wounded and ended up in the Selayang Hospital.
“In May-30 incident
two were killed, three were seriously wounded, and one has been missing since. Now
more than a hundred Buddhists have been taking refuge in the Kapone Buddhist
Monastery. The Muslim attackers on their motorbikes have since been circling the
Monastery from outside and making serious threats to burn down the whole
monastery.
These Muslim
criminals are not locals from Selayang here. Even the local Muslims are fearful
of these Bengali thugs, but our Burmese embassy is still talking down the
troubles and claiming everything is peaceful normal here,” said U San Win the Chairman of Kapong Burmese Funeral Association.
“My brother (Min Zaw)
has been working in Malaysia for over 10 years now. He was a very good man who
just minded his own business. Now our embassy is not just denying our deaths
our ambassador is even telling people that us Burmese here are just drunkards
and starting fights and all that bad shit.
We do not get any
help from our embassy and because of the threats on our lives we couldn’t work
for three days since. Only the Burmese Funeral Association here is helping with
My brother’s funeral,” bitterly claimed
the sister of murder victim Min Zaw.
Nyunt Nyunt Yee the wife of deceased Min Zaw also added, “My husband was a Burmese Buddhist and I
think the other victim also was a Burmese Buddhist. We didn’t know each other
well though. I work in a textile factory and now I’m trying to bury my husband
with the help of Burmese Funeral Association.”
Vegetable sellers from Burma in Selayang Markets. |
“Here in Malaysia
we have nearly 300,000 legal workers and about 40,000 illegal workers from our
country. And also there are more than 90,000 listed with UNHCR as refugees.
Mostly Bengali-Muslims self-proclaiming as so-called Rohingyas.
I have to explain
a little bit about what sort of place this Selayang is. Like the Thirimingla
Markets in Rangoon the Selayang Markets is the wholesale market supplying
fruits and vegetables to the whole Kuala Lumpur. Both legal and illegal Burmese
workers and also Bengali-Muslims claiming as refugees are working in the
Selayang Markets.
The Selayang
Markets is also a place so notorious for drugs-dealings and murders and all
sorts of crimes that even the Malaysian Police do not really enforce the laws effectively
there. That is the necessary background information of Selayang Markets.
And this was what exactly happened there since May-30.
And this was what exactly happened there since May-30.
First incident was
at about 2 pm May 30 a Burmese vegetable seller from Selayang Markets on his
way home was attacked by unknown assailants on motorbikes and he is now being treated
in Selayang Hospital.
Then at about 10
pm on May-31 another Burmese worker on his way home was attacked by another unknown
group of people. Same day May-31 another Burmese worker living in West-Selayang
was killed. So those were three main incidents. So far there are no attacks on
the Buddhist monastery in Selayang.
What had been
happening so far in Selayang were not the religious confrontations between Muslims
and Buddhists as some are loudly claiming. Those cases were just crimes happening
in the notorious Selayang Markets.
But I have a
serious responsibility to protect our citizens. So I had reported those
incidents to the Malaysian Foreign Ministry so that their officials could do
whatever necessary diplomatically. I also personally know the Malaysian Police
Chief and I had requested him to kindly give his attention to those small
incidents in Selayang.
What has been
happening in Selayang is criminal matters not religious troubles such as Bengali-Muslims
killing Burmese-Buddhists. I would like to remind our Burmese nationals working
in a notorious place like Selayang Markets that they are here mainly to earn
money for their country and their families and thus they should be drinking less
and avoid getting into fights as much as possible.”
Major Zaw Htay the Director of President’s Office in
Naypyidaw also told the Eleven Media Group that the Myanmar Foreign Ministry is
now investigating the Selayang matters and will be announcing the findings
soon.
Related posts at following links:
Bengali-Muslims Killing Buddhist-Yakhines in Malaysia
Killing of Yakhine-Buddhists in Malaysia
Related posts at following links:
Bengali-Muslims Killing Buddhist-Yakhines in Malaysia
Killing of Yakhine-Buddhists in Malaysia