(Compilation of translated articles from various Burmese and
Bengali blogs this week.)
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| A mosque burning in Htan Gone of Kantbalu Town. |
Like in many other non-Muslim countries
the Muslim Men in our Burma keep their women strictly inside. And as part of
their sexual jihad they go out and assault non-Muslim females who have complete
freedom to go about outside alone.
In Burma the brunt of these sexual
assaults by Muslim men are borne by many young Buddhist women who have much higher
degree of freedom than Muslim women.
On the evening of August-24 a group of
three horny Bengali-Muslims tried to rape a lone Buddhist-Burmese woman in middle
Burma. The place was a large village (almost a small town) called Htan Gone in
the Kantbalu Township of Shwe Bo District in Sagaing Division.
The enraged Buddhists led by local Buddhist
monks retaliated by burning down a few Muslim-owned businesses and properties and
a mosque, yes, a mosque again. Mosque burning appears to be the counter-jihad
of Buddhists in Burma, and Burmese Buddhists burned down so many mosques
recently Burma will soon become a mosque-free nation, a very rare one indeed.
Gang Rape and Buddhists’ Angry Retaliation
She was a 25 years-old Buddhist girl named
Ma La Byay from nearby Zee Gone village working as a haircutter in much larger
Htan Gone village which has a train station and two small bazaars
and a police station. Htan Gone also has nearly 300 Muslim households with two large mosques and one Arabic-Madrassa. That day she was going home alone when San Nyunt Oo a
Muslim man from Htan Gone tried to grab her. She fought him off.
He then went away and came back with
two Muslim men on a motorbike and they grabbed hold of Ma La Byay and tried to
gang-rape her in the nearby fields. Fortunately for her a group of Burmese
farmhands were in the fields and they came to help her free from the Muslim
rapists.
Burmese then captured the main
instigator Muslim San Nyunt Oo and took him to the Hatn Gone police station. By
then the time was almost 7 pm. By 7:30 pm about 150 Buddhist-Burmese from both
Htan Gone and Zee Bin villages led by 3 Buddhist monks gathered at the gate of
Htan Gone police station and asked to release the rapist into their hands.
The police refused as the arrested Muslim
man has already been sent to more secure police station at nearby Kantbalu
town. From there he was taken to fortify Prison at Shwe Bo.
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| Kantbalu, Htangone, and Shwebo are all on the Mandalay-Myitkyinar train-line. |
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| A rice mill and warehouse burning in Htan Gone village. |
Frustrated crowd then started destroying
Muslim properties in Htan Gone village at about 8 pm. They started with Muslim
Than Myint’s house and then destroyed and burned down four Muslim shops in Municipal
Bazaar, Muslim Khin Than’s shop inside Train-station Bazaar, Thaung Pai’s
hardware store in Ward-4, Maung Maung Ni’s grocery in Ward-3, Ali Bar’s Radio
repair shop by the rail track, Swe Nyunt’s and Maung Win’s houses in Ward-7,
and other five more Muslim shops nearby.
The same Buddhist mob burned down the
large chicken farm owned by Muslim Kyaw Myint at about 9 pm. They then continued
on to destroy and burn Tin Win’s Teashop, Maung Kyaw’s house, Mu Thein’s rice
warehouse, Maung Kin’s Beetlenut shop, all Muslim-owned properties in Ward-1.
By 11 pm about 20 houses from Ward-2
were burning ferociously after the fire from Mya Thway’s Pan-myaing-le teashop
swept through the ward. About 1,000 strong crowd then moved on to Ward-3 and
tried to burn Muslim Khin Than’s house.
But more than 200 strong police
reinforcement led by the District Police-Chief Own Hlaing himself had arrived
in Htan Gone village and managed to stop the crowd from attacking further the
Muslim properties. They had to fire many warning shots to quell the crowd.
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| Armed policemen confronting the Buddhist mob. |
Ten Fire engines and 70 fire-fighters from
Kantbalu town also arrived but the mob tried to stop the fire crews by cutting
their fire-hoses and police had to fire into air second time. Finally the
firemen had extinguished the fire by about 4 in the early morning next day August
25.
All together 44 Muslim-owned houses, 14
Muslim-owned shops and businesses, large Aung Zabu Rice Mill owned by prominent
Muslim Htun Thin, and the village mosque in Hatn Gone village were totally destroyed
by the fire set by Burmese-Buddhist mob of more than 1,500 villagers from Htan
Gone and Zee Bin and other neighbouring villages.
A score of police and firemen were injured in the night-long riots and so
far police has arrested eleven Burmese-Buddhists for leading the anti-Muslim race
riots.
