Buddhist on the attack!

[iGas]

This is the first time that I ever heard that the Buddhists are on the attack, and IMHO it stemmed from the negative propaganda that was use to spread fear and hates.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/26/burma-imposes-curfews-townships-violence

Burma imposes curfews in townships after anti-Muslim violence

Public assemblies, marches and speeches are banned in three townships close to main city of Rangoon

The youtube videos below claimed that Muslim lives and properties were lost, even children weren't spare from the attackers. And, currently Burma/Myanmar is in a state of emergency as the Buddhists are burning down Muslims homes and businesses while the police and junta army is letting it unfold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45k5qwAMIUE

50 People Killed and Burned On Spot in Meiktila,Burma ENGLISH SUBTITLED...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWw-CpyZ2RY

Myanmar :: State of emergency imposed in Meiktila

http://www.onislam.net/english/news/asia-pacific/462008-burma-muslims-appeal-for-respite.html

NAYPYIDAW – As attacks continue on their property and worship places, Muslim leaders in Burma are appealing to President Thein Sein to intervene to stop Buddhist attacks on the minority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Burma

Persecution of Muslims in Burma

Myanmar has a Buddhist majority. The Muslim minority in Myanmar mostly consists of the Rohingya people and the descendants of Muslim immigrants from India (including what is now Bangladesh) and China (the ancestors of Chinese Muslims in Myanmar came from the Yunnan province), as well as descendants of earlier Arab settlers. Indian Muslims migrated to Burma during British rule to fill jobs in the expanding economy, especially in clerical work and business. After independence, many Muslims retained their previous positions and achieved prominence in business and politics.[citation needed] According to Human Rights Watch the Burmese government has denied citizenship to any Rohingya person who cannot prove their ancestors settled in the country before 1823, the beginning of British occupation of what is now Arakan State.[1]

Myo Pyauk Hmar Soe Kyauk Sa Yar (or) The Fear of Losing One's Race and many other anti-Muslim pamphlets were widely distributed by monks.

Over the years thousands of Rohingya also have fled to Thailand. There are roughly 111,000 refugees housed in 9 camps along the Thai-Myanmar border. There have been charges that groups of them have been shipped and towed out to open sea from Thailand, and left there. In February 2009 there was evidence of the Thai army towing a boatload of 190 Rohingya refugees out to sea. A group of refugees rescued by Indonesian authorities also in February 2009 told harrowing stories of being captured and beaten by the Thai military, and then abandoned at open sea. By the end of February there were reports that of a group of 5 boats were towed out to open sea, of which 4 boats sank in a storm, and 1 boat washed up on the shore. February 12, 2009 Thailand's prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said there were "some instances" in which Rohingya people were pushed out to sea.

 

[peonyu]

Theres more to the story than meets the eye..First blood was drawn by the Muslims when they chased down a Buddhist monk, beat him, then dragged him into their mosque and butchered him. There is also tension from Buddhist sites being destroyed in Afghanistan, Buddhists being killed in muslim majority countries etc. Its almost unheard of for Buddhists to go on the rampage so ill give them the benefit of the doubt when the other party is Muslims [who as a rule, tend to go berserk over anything].


http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/violence-against-muslims-in-meiktila-myanmar/


"Still, by that same afternoon anti-Muslim mobs were destroying the Muslim gold shops of Meiktila’s market area. Then, in revenge, local Muslims stabbed to death a monk traveling from a nearby village. That murder in turn unleashed a killing spree of Muslims on Wednesday night and over the next two days. “Any Muslim, old or young, including babies, was killed that night,” Myo Htut, an eyewitness, told me this week."

 

[Jaskalas]

I'm quite certain that if all their members were pacifists... then they wouldn't be alive in the first place. Hence, the very existence of Buddhist followers denotes that some of them will at least defend themselves.

It then stands to reason that a smaller group of those might retaliate offensively. Heck, maybe even preemptively. Thus the permanent struggle between peaceful teachings and a harsh reality.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Theres more to the story than meets the eye."

I'll say..even your own link contradicts the story your telling.

The town’s Muslims have no links to the stateless Rohingyas in western Myanmar; they have a long and peaceful lineage here.

I'll go ahead and post this story to move the situation back to Sept.14

Buddhist Monks Behaving Badly
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/14/buddhist_monks_behaving_badly

Your turn now

 

[Raghu]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21973292