Religious violence erupts in Myanmar

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Myanmar’s government has called for calm after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the northeastern Shan state.
Authorities imposed a curfew late on Tuesday in Lashio, about 700km northeast of Yangon, after a mob of 200 local residents surrounded a local police station demanding they hand over a Muslim detainee.
Nay Win, 48, a Muslim from a nearby township, was arrested after allegedly setting fire to Aye Aye Win, 24, a Shan Buddhist, earlier in the day after the two had an altercation at a petrol station, Lashio police said.
The woman was admitted to hospital. “According to witnesses, she was not burned seriously but has injuries on her face and arms,” Sai Sam Min, a member of parliament from Lashio, said.
“We imposed the curfew at 9pm (14:30 GMT) on Tuesday to control the angry mob which included Buddhist monks,” a police station spokesman, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
“A mosque and a religious school and some houses were destroyed by the mob, but there were no deaths or injuries”.

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  1. What is happening in Myanmar,U.N.O is unaware or they are closing their eyes over the lose of Muslims.Why no stern actions are taken so far?If anything happens in a Muslim country withe minority,the U.N.O Secretary immidiately comes in actions and hard embargos are put into effective.They do not sit calm,till a separate state is not set up.Is it the affairs of the U.N.O and we protest the behaviours of U.N.O.Even U.S.A nd European Union are a;so quite and calm over the brutial and unjustified killings of innocent Muslims in Myanamr .We urge this body to work with justice or finish this so-called body of provider of shelters and justice to the effected muslim community in this country.SHAMEABLE,DEPLOREABLE,SORROWFUL AND UNJUSTIFIED BEHAVIOURS WITH MUSLIMS IN MYANMAR FOR A LONG TIME AND WE URGE THIS BODY TO ESTABLISH A NEW STATE FOR MUSLIMS WHICH WILL BE INDEPENDENT,FREE AND RUN BY MISLIMS ONLY.U.N.O MUST IMMEDIATELY TAKE NECASSARY ACTIONS TO BRING BACK SOLIDARITY AND SETTING UP OF A SEPARATE STATE.

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