Weapons Captured From Mandalay’s Militant Mosques

(Compilation of news article direct from various Burmese blogs on 7 July 2014.)

Armed Bengali-Muslims of Mandalay.

Caches of assorted weapons were captured from the militant Joon Mosque in Mandalay where a five day long riots killed one Buddhist and one Muslim and severely wounded twelve Burmese Buddhists.

Htun Htun the Buddhist from Nan-shay Ward was killed when his motorbike was violently stopped by a group of armed Bengali-Muslims on 83^rd Street between 33^rd and 34^th streets. His pillion rider Ko Htwe was seriously wounded and now recovering at Mandalay Hospital.

Before Htun Htun was fatally cut down by their swords the attacking Muslims had asked them whether they were Buddhists or Muslims to make sure that their victims were Burmese-Buddhists.

Mohammad Noor the Muslim from Aung-nan-yeik-thar East Ward was killed at the corner of 29^th and 83^rd streets by a group of armed Burmese-Buddhists on his way to the neighbourhood mosque.

Muslims Are Well-armed and Well-defended

Joon Mosque.

Despite the numerical superiority of more than thirty-five-to-one all the seriously wounded from the riots were Burmese-Buddhists as Mandalay Muslims had been well-prepared and well-armed for long-expected anti-Muslim race riots in Mandalay.

With more than sixteen well-built mosques concentrating in one small area of Mandalay City the besieged Bengali-Muslims had been stockpiling assorted weapons in their fortress-liked mosques.

The Joon Mosque at the corner of 27^th and 82^nd streets has a 500-strong so-called Jihadi militia group receiving military training since a few months back and on 5^th June the security police backed by army units had raided the large mosque and captured a massive stockpile of weapons shown in following photos.