BBC report on attack on Muslims in Myanmar
The BBC in its report back in April showed how the Police and security forces in Myanmar were complicit in the Buddhist attacks against Muslims. Here is the link for the report. The footage showed a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses.
It was filmed in March 2013, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila. The video from Meiktila, in Mandalay Region, is remarkable both for the comprehensive way it documents the violence and because much of it was shot by the Burmese police themselves.
In the sequence where policemen look on as a man rolls on the ground having been set on fire, someone in the watching crowd is heard to say: "No water for him - let him die."
Another sequence shows a young man attempting to flee and getting caught, after which he is beaten by a group of men which includes a monk. Finally he is struck with a sword strikes him and left on the ground, apparently dead.
The footage corroborates eyewitness testimony. A row at a Muslim-owned gold shop on 20 March was said to have started the violence, when a dispute involving a Buddhist couple escalated into a fight.
This was followed by an attack on a Buddhist monk who later died in hospital. News of that incident appeared to have sparked off sustained communal violence.
The violence then spread to other towns and led to curfews being imposed. There were reports of mosques and houses being torched in at least three towns.
As usual, the prosecuted ones in Myanmar are always Muslims. The gold shop's owner, his wife and an employee were convicted of assault on 12 April and jailed for 14 years. Dozens of other Muslims are said to be under investigation. That is the Myanmar form of justice!
To read more: click here.
It was filmed in March 2013, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila. The video from Meiktila, in Mandalay Region, is remarkable both for the comprehensive way it documents the violence and because much of it was shot by the Burmese police themselves.
In the sequence where policemen look on as a man rolls on the ground having been set on fire, someone in the watching crowd is heard to say: "No water for him - let him die."
Another sequence shows a young man attempting to flee and getting caught, after which he is beaten by a group of men which includes a monk. Finally he is struck with a sword strikes him and left on the ground, apparently dead.
The footage corroborates eyewitness testimony. A row at a Muslim-owned gold shop on 20 March was said to have started the violence, when a dispute involving a Buddhist couple escalated into a fight.
This was followed by an attack on a Buddhist monk who later died in hospital. News of that incident appeared to have sparked off sustained communal violence.
The violence then spread to other towns and led to curfews being imposed. There were reports of mosques and houses being torched in at least three towns.
As usual, the prosecuted ones in Myanmar are always Muslims. The gold shop's owner, his wife and an employee were convicted of assault on 12 April and jailed for 14 years. Dozens of other Muslims are said to be under investigation. That is the Myanmar form of justice!
To read more: click here.
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