Arakan News Agency
Myanmar authorities on Thursday demolished a mosque for the Rohingya Muslims in the northern city of Mimbya for the second time after burning it in the 2012 crisis.
Arakan news agency reported that government security forces arrived in the village of Sambili in the city of Mambia, east of the capital of the state of Arakan and demolished the mosque that was restored by local residents after it was burned in 2012 during the campaign of violence against Muslims.
Incidents of burning down buildings and permanently removing mosques in Arakan have been repeated by Buddhist extremists and security forces. The government and the Buddhist majority consider the existence of Muslim mosques as a threat to Buddhism.
