| dc.description.abstract | During May 2012-April 2013, several civilian conflicts erupted between Arakanese and Rohingya. Violence attacks took place in nine townships of the Arakan state, and on October 21-24 resulted in the deaths of “at least 70 Muslims massacred in Mrauk-U, including 28 children (Human Rights Watch Report 2013).” Approximately a hundred thousand people were displaced from their homes; this included 75,000 Muslims (Human Rights Watch Report 2013). The trigger for those violent attacks was the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men. The Human Rights Watch reports stated that on “May 28, 2012: Three Muslim men raped and murdered Thida Htwe, a 28-year-old Arakanese Buddhist woman in Kyaw Ne Maw village, Ramri Township. Police arrest them and later report that one of the men committed suicide in police custody. The remaining two are brought to court, found guilty, and sentenced to death (Human Rights Watch Report 2013).” What started as a regular criminal act eventually became an ongoing ethnic religious conflict between Buddhist Arakanese and Muslim Rohingya communities. | en_US |
