U.N. rights investigator urges Myanmar to crack down on religious violence

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Fri Jul 1, 2016 3:09pm EDT

U.N. rights investigator urges Myanmar to crack down on religious violence

YANGON | BY WA LONE AND ANTONI SLODKOWSKI

A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday urged the Myanmar government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate last week's mob attack on a mosque and crack down on religious violence.

In one of the most serious outbursts of inter-religious violence in months, a group of men from a village in central Myanmar last week destroyed a mosque in a dispute over its construction and beat up a Muslim man.

In a separate incident on Friday, Buddhists burned down a Muslim prayer hall in northern Kachin State, police said.

The attacks underscore the challenges Suu Kyi faces as she deals with the legacy of decades of direct junta rule and bitter religious and ethnic divisions.

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[Lordquinton]

1. Buddhism is a religion like any other

And it's the one that is often held up as the exception to all other religions with violent tendency. That's when it gets pointed out that they are actually atheist...

[rug]

2. Is this then an act committed by atheists?

"In a separate incident on Friday, Buddhists burned down a Muslim prayer hall in northern Kachin State, police said."