Rohingya Bandits Attack Elderly Arakanese Couple

Bandits Attack Elderly Arakanese Couple

2/3/2009

A group of Muslim bandits attacked an elderly Arakanese couple in
Maungdaw on the western Burmese border on Monday night, but the couple
luckily escaped death, said a relative.

"Five Muslim men entered the village of Thaya Gon around 10 pm to
steal cattle but were unable to, so they left the village and entered
the home of the couple just outside the village and attacked them with
swords," he said.

The victims were identified as U Ah Ray Chay, 63 years old, and Daw
War Pan, 60 years old, from Thaya Gon Village in Maungdaw Township.
The couple has been hospitalized at Maungdaw general hospital with
serious injuries.

"The Muslim miscreants chopped them several times to kill them, but
the miscreants fled from the house when local residents rushed to the
house when the couple cried out for help," the relative said.

In Maungdaw the murder rate of Muslims against Arakanese Buddhists has
increased. On 26 December, U Ahwee from Kan Tha Ya Village was killed
by a miscreant while 50-year-old Daw Aung Tha May was killed by a
Muslim miscreant in a separate incident on 24 November 2008.



The Mahamuni tradition lives on as seen by this group of images
representing the Buddha and his 500 disciples arriving in Arakan
installed on the southern platfrom in the 1980s.

Source: http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=2057