Arakan News Agency
Myanmar security forces raided a village inhabited by Rohingya Muslims from northern Maungdaw city of Arakan province west of the country, and terrorized the local population and tampered with the Islamic purities in the neighborhood mosque.
Security forces came to the neighborhood and stormed the mosque and tampered with its contents, causing damage and seizing Islamic books and copies of the Quran were burned and the rest was threw in a stream close to the mosque, later the security forces also destroyed a number of shops in the neighborhood.
The Global Rohingya Center (GRC) president Mr. Mohammed Alam Yassin, describing these practices is a way to provoke the local population by insulting religious sentiments and delaying the performing of their religious rites.
Mr. Yassin called on the United Nations and the international community to ask Myanmar to respect and submission of Article 27 of the International Treaty on Civil and Political Rights, which provides for the preservation of religious and cultural rights also the personal freedoms for minorities.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Ms. Yang Hee Lee expressed grave concern about the violations by the authorities against the Rohingya Muslim minority, adding that at least 12 thousand Muslims have fled their homes for fear of reprisals.
