Arakan News Agency
Myanmar police said Saturday they had arrested three Muslims for planting home-made bombs around Yangon and were investigating their links to “terrorists” in Arakan state, where the army is cracking down on the Muslim Rohingya minority.
But the international observers and investigators says its Myanmar’s propaganda to shift concentration of the world from atrocities in Arakan (Rakhine) against Rohingya Muslims and also the investigators criticizes the television footage of investigation by police, and says it is clearly visible that the house claimed to be of a Muslims is in fact has a Buddha’s picture.
Also the uniform hanged in the room is happens to be of a Myanmar security force.
Scores of Rohingya people have died in northern Arakan State after attacks on police border posts last months sparked a military crackdown.
The government has blamed the raids on Islamist militants with a Pakistani Taliban-trained leader.
Privately, diplomats have questioned this claim.
Several videos of young men armed with knives and guns, purporting to be Rohingya freedom fighters, have appeared online.
Denied citizenship the Rohingya are considered among the most persecuted people in the world.
Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay posted images of a homemade bomb-making kit that he said one of the suspects had thrown away in the compound of a mosque close to where they were arrested.
When contacted by AFP he declined to give further details, saying investigations were ongoing.
Mr. Zaw Htay, who earlier claimed Rohingya Muslims were torching their own homes but later the military admitted using helicopters and armored vehicles on Rohingya Muslims.
Widespread allegations of rape have raised fears that Myanmar’s security forces are systematically using sexual violence against the stateless Rohingya.
The violence has forced thousands to flee, prompting a UN official to accuse Myanmar of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of the Muslim minority.
International observers said Myanmar has a long history of media manipulation to ease on pressure, they are using the same to shift focus of the world from Rohingya minority.
