Facebook Photo of Quran Burning incites riot and Muslims torch Buddhist ...

Facebook Photo of Quran Burning incites riot and Muslims torch Buddhist ... 

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Protesters burn Bangladesh Buddhist temples Picture of allegedly desecrated Quran on Facebook blamed for burning of Buddhist homes and places of worship. Hundreds of Muslims have set fire to at least 10 Buddhist temples and 2,100 homes in southern Bangladesh, according to officials. The violence on Saturday night came in reaction to an allegedly derogatory image of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, posted on Facebook. "They became unruly and attacked Buddhist houses, torching and damaging their temples from midnight to Sunday morning," Joinul Bari, a government administrator, told the AFP news agency. "At least 100 houses were damaged. We called in army and border guards to quell the violence," he said, adding that authorities had temporarily banned public gatherings in the area to prevent further clashes. Nojibul Islam, a police chief in the coastal district of Cox's Bazaar, said at least 20 people were injured in the attacks that followed the posting of a photo of a burned copy of the Quran on the social networking site. Torching and looting Protesters blamed the photo on a local Buddhist boy, but it was not immediately clear if the boy actually posted the photo. Rumia Khatun, a local police officer, said that about "25,000 Muslims chanting God is Great" first attacked a Buddhist hamlet in Ramu, torching centuries-old temples, and later stormed Buddhist villages outside the town. "I have seen 11 wooden temples, two of them 300 years old, torched by the mob. They looted precious items and Buddha statues from the temples. Shops owned by Buddhists were also looted," said Sunil Barua, a local journalist on the scene. Bari, the government administrator, said authorities had detained the boy's parents and that an investigation was under way. Buddhists, who make up less than one per cent of Bangladesh's 153 million population, are based mainly in southeastern districts, close to the border with Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Although the South Asian country has witnessed deadly clashes between Muslims and Hindus in the past, sectarian  clashes involving Buddhists are rare. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of Muslims have hit the street across the country to protest an anti-Islam video that mocked the Prophet Mohammed.

Source: Agencies

အလႅာဟာၾကီးျမတ္တယ္လို ့ေၾကြးေၾကာ္ျပီး မီးရွိဳ ့ေတာ့တာပါပဲ

Authorities had temporarily banned public gatherings in the area to prevent further clashes [AFP]

ဘဂၤလာေဒ့ရွ္ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွာ မူဆလင္ရာေပါင္းမ်ားစြာဟာ ဗုဒၵဘာသာဘုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးေက်ာင္း၁၁ေက်ာင္း ႏွင့္ လူေနအိမ္ ၂၁၀၀ေက်ာ္ကိုမီးရွိဳ ့ဖ်က္ဆီးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ျဖစ္ရတဲ့အေၾကာင္းရင္းကေတာ့ Facebook ေပၚမွာ ကိုရန္က်မ္းကိုေစာ္ကားတဲ့ဓာတ္ပံုတပံုကို ဗုဒၵဘာသာလူငယ္တေယာက္ကတင္လို ့ပါတဲ့။

ဗုဒၵဘာသာအိမ္ေတြ၊ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္းေတြ တရားမဲ့တိုက္ခိုက္ဖ်က္ဆီးၾကတာ သန္းေခါင္ကေန တနဂၤေႏြ ေန ့မနက္ထိေအာင္ပါပဲ လို ့ အစိုးရတာ၀န္ရွိသူတဦးက AFP ကိုေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဗုဒၵဘာသာလူငယ္တေယာက္က ဒီဓာတ္ပံုကို facebook ေပၚတင္ခဲ့တယ္လုိ ့ေျပာေနၾကေပမယ့္ တကယ္ တမ္းတင္ခဲ့သလားမတင္ခဲ့ဘူးလားကေတာ့ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာမသိၾကပါဘူး။

မူဆလင္ ၂၅၀၀၀ေလာက္က အလႅာဟာ ၾကီးျမတ္တယ္ လို ့ေၾကြးေၾကာ္ၾကျပီး ဗုဒၵဘာသာေက်း ရြာေတြ၊ႏွစ္ ရာစုနဲ ့ခ်ီျပီးသက္တမ္းရွိတဲ့ဗုဒၵဘာသာဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္းေတြကိုမီးတိုက္၊ေနာက္ေတာ့ျမိဳ ့ျပင္ ကဗုဒၵ ဘာသာေက်းရြာေတြကို အၾကမ္းဖက္တိုက္ခိုက္ေတာ့ပါပဲ။

ႏွစ္ေပါင္း၃၀၀ သက္တမ္းရွိတဲ့ ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္း၂ ေက်ာင္းအပါအ၀င္ ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္း ၁၁ ေက်ာင္းမီးရွိဳ ့ 

ဖ်က္ဆီးျခင္းခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းတြင္းမွာရွိတဲ့အဖိုးတန္ပစၥည္းေတြ၊ဆင္းတုေတာ္ေတြကိုလုယက္သြားၾက

တယ္။ဗုဒၵဘာသာလူမ်ိဳးပိုင္တဲ့ဆိုင္ေတြလည္းလုယက္ဖ်က္ဆီးျခင္းခံရတယ္တယ္လို ့ဂ်ာနယ္လစ္တေယာက္ ကေျပာပါတယ္။

လူဦးေရ ၁၅၃ သန္းရွိတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္မွာ ဗုဒၵဘာသာက ၁ရာႏွဳန္းေတာင္မရွိပါဘူး။ အမ်ားစုက ျမန္မာျပည္နဲ ့နီးစပ္တဲ့ အေရွ ့ေတာင္ဘက္ခရိုင္မွာေနထိုင္ၾကပါတယ္။

သတင္းအျပည့္အစံုကို ေအာက္ကလင့္မွာဖတ္ရွဳႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/201293092057855387.html
 http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/rioters-torch-buddhist-temples-homes-in-bangladesh-273877

 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=345978772161359&set=a.338260486266521.78842.326560140769889&type=1&permPage=1