- Web Master
- May 10, 2024
The residents, who fled from Buthidaung township in Rakhine
State, stated that many houses belonging to Rakhine people were demolished and
torched by the junta forces. They took help from ARSA members and armed
Muslims, who had completed military training.
A Buthidaung resident informed Narinjara News that since 14 April, a group of
Muslim supporters from the junta along with ARSA members and trained
Muslims vandalised many houses in the township.
"All our houses were burned down. Shops were
broken and then set on fire. Now, the abandoned Rakhine houses are being burnt.
They have not targeted the Muslim-owned houses and shops. We're at a loss for
words," added the resident.
A woman, who fled from Buthidaung, said that her house was destroyed. She
demands justice for the loss.
"As I fled my house was also burnt down. I did not expect it," she
added.
On 14 April in Buthidaung, the residents reported that radical Muslims set 50
Rakhine houses on fire. Even the office cum residence of former Pyithu Hluttaw
representative U Aung Thaung Shwe was not spared.
On 15 April, the Doctors Without Borders (Medicines
Sans Frontiers) issued a statement revealing that over 200 houses were burned
down in Buthidaung locality. Even the office and medical storage of MSF was
targeted.
On 11 April, bodies of two 30-year-old youths (who
were murdered in Buthidaung) were recovered. The residents claimed that the
junta soldiers and radical Muslims were involved in religious and ethnic
clashes in the locality.
The local residents informed that only those houses belonging to Muslims
and Buthidaung Myoma market areas were not destroyed, but hundreds of Rakhine
houses have already been burnt down.