(Translated compilation of
articles from various Burmese blogs this week.)
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| The Yarzarmin Bus robbed by 5 gunmen near Thaton. |
At
about 9 pm in the dark night of June-8 a luxury passenger bus from prominent
Muslim-owned Yarzarmin Bus Line was violently taken over at gunpoint by a group
of 5 armed-men travelling as passengers on the bus on its scheduled trip to
Rangoon from Kyaik-kha-mee in Mon State.
The 5
men armed with 9mm pistols forced the Muslim driver and Muslim conductor at
gunpoint to veer the bus off into a rural road leading to Oung-sai village from the main highway between the
mileposts 154/4 and 154/5 near the Taung-zun village in Tha-hton township of
Mon State.
They then
forced the bus to stop at about two furlongs (1/4 mile) from the highway and forced
the passengers and the driver and the conductor to disembark and lie face down
on the ground away from the big bus.
As their
original plan was to burn the bus for some unexplained reason they then forced
the conductor to open the fuel tank cap of the bus. But the conductor refused
and they immediately shot him in the head and killed him. They also shot and
fatally wounded the Muslim driver when he tried to run away. He died later at
the hospital.
Failing with
their plan to burn the bus they then robbed the passengers off their mobile
phones and gold jewelleries and other valuables. All the passengers onboard
happened to be Buddhists and no one was touched by the ethnic Karen-looking and
sounding highway-bandits.
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| Robbed Muslim-owned Yarzarmin Bus with gunshot-shattered window. |
Bengali-Muslim Tycoons behind The Malaysia
Killings?
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| Muslim-owned Great Father Land Construction. |
According to
various Burmese sources inside Malaysia the masterminds behind the killings of
Burmese and Yakhine Buddhists in Malaysia recently are rich Bengali-Muslim
bosses of many well-known Muslim businesses from Burma.
They have
financed and selected a 35 to 40 strong group of hardcore Bengali-Muslim
killers from the Bangladeshi border and sent them to KL just to kill Burmese
and Yakhine Buddhists from Burma now working in Malaysia as Islamic response to
the hard hitting anti-Muslim 969 campaign by the Buddhists of Burma.
Negative
impacts from the extremely popular 969 Buddhist nationalist campaign has been biting
enormously into the profits of their previously extremely-profitable business
operations and they are not too happy about that at all.
Some big
Muslim-owned businesses have already collapsed and their ruined Muslim owners
fleeing Burma and now residing in Muslim safe heavens like Dubai and Qatar have
openly sworn to take revenge against Burmese Buddhists and now they seem to be
putting their money where their mouths were.
Bengali-Muslim Thugs Hunting Burmese-Buddhists
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| Great Father Land Company's newspaper-fullpage legal threat to 969 Buddhists. |
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| A dead Burmese-Buddhist in KL's Selayang Markets. |
Various eye
witnesses and the survivors of these brutal attacks have been describing a
group of Bengali-Muslim thugs involving in various attacks on Burmese Buddhists
in KL and some other parts of Malaysia.
The core
Muslim killer group is only about 35 to 40 strong and they been travelling in
two or three dark-colour Totyota or Mitsuibishi vans all over Malaysia and
hunting down vulnerable small groups of Burmese and Yakhine Buddhists.
Since they
have extreme blood grudge against the Yakhin Buddhists from Arakan they started
killing only Yakhine-Buddhists on the border region like Alor-Setar on the Thai
border. There they picked up small groups of Yakhin Buddhists working in remote
rubber and palm-oil plantations and slaughtered them. From there they appeared to
have gradually moved up to the capital Kuala Lumpur.
They must
have local Malaysian accomplices in KL as some of their later attacks in KL
were together with local Muslim-bikie gangs. Most of the Selayang Markets
attackers were seen leaving the crime scenes in motorbikes.
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| December 2012 killings of three Yakhine Buddhists in Alor-Setar, Malaysia. |
But
Malaysian police together with Burmese Embassy in KL had been downplaying all the
killings as just random fights between Burmese rival gangs and ignoring the
plights of Burmese Buddhists and at the same time giving free runs to them
Bengali-Muslim killers.
Even though
the notorious Malaysian SB (Special Branch) has already known the existence of Bengali-Muslim
killers in Malaysia through their extensive network of informers for a while
now they do not act as there is no political pressure on them from the
Malaysian government.
So far
Malaysian police has only released photos and some details of two
Bengali-Muslims and one Bangladeshi suspects wanted as persons of interest
concerning the recent killings of Burmese Buddhists in KL.
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| Wanted photos of two Bengali-Muslims and one Bangladeshi Muslim. |
Attack on Muslim-owned Bus Line a revenge
act?
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| Crime scene Thaton at the top of the map. |
The vicious
attack on one of the Yazarmin luxury buses on June-8 was immediately reported
as a targeted anti-Muslim attack as there was no need whatsoever to kill the
Muslim driver and the Muslim conductor and the fact that the Karen gunmen
didn’t lay a single hand on any of the Buddhist passengers.
But Khaing
Myint the Director of Yazarmin Bus line said the rumours implying that the
attack was mainly because of the Muslim ownership of the company was just
baseless even though the police suspecting anti-Islam was the main reason.
Yarzarmin
Buses and its owner became prominent in Burma as they have been picked out openly
as the prime target in Nationalist monk Shin Wirathu’s 969 Campaign to boycott Muslim
businesses in Burma.
Deputy-Chief-Inspector
Win Sein from Burma Police’s CID also clearly
remarked that the area traditionally was under the control of DKBA (Democratic
Karen Buddhist Army) and all the bus lines and the merchants using the highway
have been paying the DKBA regular protection money (Set-kyay in Burmese). And
he suspected that Yarzarmin might have refused to pay DKBA and the attack was
some kind of reminder from the DKBA.
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| Brazil-made Taurus 9mm semi-automatic pistol. |
The forensic
evidence of spent bullet casings collected from the crime scene are also
pointing out the fact that the 9mm pistols used were Brazil-made Taurus 9mm
low-cost semi-automatics popular among DKBA officers. And in Burma unless one
is in either Burmese army or an insurgent army like DKBA the ordinary public
has no easy access to a modern handgun.
Obvious
conclusion is that the DKBA’s Karen Buddhists heavily involving in the human
trafficking business sending illegal workers across the border to Thailand and
Malaysia were behind the Yarzarmin Bus attack and killing of two Muslims as a
warning and retribution for the recent killing of Buddhists from Burma in
Malaysia.
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| Marauding DKBA troops in Mon State. |
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| Renegade DKBA troops in Myawaddy. |
