Arakan News Agency
Buddhist extremists have demolished a number of Rohingya Muslim homes in Buthidaung city, north of Arakan province.
Buddhist extremists entered a village east of the city and began demolishing Muslim homes among Buddhist houses in the same village, Arakan News Agency reporter said.
Local residents said the houses were expensive because they were built more tightly than other houses, with bamboos.
Arakan is currently undergoing a systematic crackdown on Muslims to force them to flee to Bangladesh, despite Myanmar’s signing of a 700,000-member refugee agreement with neighboring Bangladesh in just a few months.
Observers believe that these practices in order to thwart the return project and to make the remaining Muslims to exit Myanmar.
Since Aug. 25, Myanmar forces have launched a military campaign against Rohingya Muslims in which they have committed horrendous crimes, which the United Nations has described as amounting to ethnic cleansing.
