ALP: Thein Sein government behind the Rakhine violence

Minister U Aung Thaung, one of the top government officers behind the Rakhine communal conflict

Khine Myo Min, 27 August, 2012: Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) reveals direct involvement of Myanmar's military backed Thein Sein government in the communal violence between Rakhine and Bengali migrants in Western Myanmar. The government officials, according to a reliable source from ALP, secretly released 50 hardcore criminals from the notorious Insein prison in Yangon a few days before ten Myanmar Bengali Muslims were killed in a mob attack in Taungup.
It is reported that minister U Aung Thaung and U Kyaw San from president Thein Sein's government along with some senior USDP members have systematically arranged the attack by bringing the criminals out of the prison. They are the real murderers of ten Muslims in Taungup on 2nd June 2012. There were many news reports about the unknown assailants that disappeared after the attack. Local residents from Taungup have also told to various news agencies that they have never seen those attackers in the town before.
"The victims could have been saved if the government ordered the police or army to control the mob.", a Taungup residence said. An eye witness also told to Narinjara News that the police and army forces were there when the mob was beating the victims, but they did not do anything to control the mob or protect the victims. The attack happened right in front of their eyes. So, it was just a matter that the law enforcers did not do what they should have during the attack.
According to VOA Burmese program's interview with U Khin Hla, Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Taungup, the killing was happened in broad daylight just around 4:30 PM, and it was not just an incident in which a man hacked and killed another and ran away. "I think the officials who are working for the rule of law and order in the country are very responsible for such an incident", he expressed his view regarding the incident.
"It is true that 50 convicted murderers were released from Insein prison and the Mercedes cars owned by U Aung Thaung were driven through Pye road towards Taungup.  I am not trying to spread rumours.  You can investigate it by yourself if you don't believe me", Khine Tun Tun, an ALP leader based in Norway said.
Fredom News Group on June 6, 2012 reported that ex-army officers and USDP (Union Solidarity and Development Party) members from Magwe distributed anti-Muslim propaganda pamphlets in Rakhine state in June with direct order by U Aung Thaung, a federal minister and one of the top USDP leader.
Myanmar information ministry in its official release said the violent killing of ten Myanmar Muslims in Taungup was the result of a revenge attack by the angry Rakhine Buddhists due to the rape and murder of a Rakhine Buddhist girl by three Bengali Muslim youths. It is also learnt that Myanmar officials revoked the licence of some Myanmar news agency that covered investigative reports about the case.
There were reports that the authority summoned and interrogated about 100 residents from Taungup after the incident and the police have particularly searched for the people who looks like those who recorded the incident with mobile phones and video recorders.

Taungup where the tragic death of ten Bengali were killed by a USDP led mob

The killing of ten Muslims in Taungup have followed a protest by a group of Bengali Muslims in Yangon. The Bengali Muslim extremists in Myanmar with direct supervision of so-called Rohingya groups based in UK, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. subsequently planned a revenge attacks to local Rakhine Buddhists in Maungdaw where Bangladeshi immigrants are 97 % of the entire township population.
The bloody Maungdaw massacre in which many local Rakhines were murdered and thousands of houses were burned down by the Bengali immigrants happened on 8 June 2012. This further leads to a sequence of communal riots, in other townships such as Sittwe, Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, etc., that claimed 77 lives (31 Rakhine nationals and 46 Bengalis immigrants) as stated by the official release by the government.

This picture was one of the most distributed pictues by the USDP members in Rakhine state during Bengali terrorist attacks.

Some Rakhine politicians including exiled ALD leaders have predicted the possibility of Burmese government behind the riot. As government officials in Rakhine state have been promoting anti-Daw Aung San Suu Kyi campaign by displaying big posters featuring the NLD leader with some Bengali Muslims during the riot, exiled Rakhine leaders and politicians have warned Rakhine peoples of not to fall prey to the plot of the government. They also advised Rakhine people to stay calm and peace, but the NLD lost the trust and support from Rakhine people as the Noble laurate did not show her sympathy while they wrere helpless under the brutal attacks of Bengali Muslim immigrants.
Many Myanmar people including political and social activists, analysts, writers and bloggers believe that the government has gained many benefits out of Rakhine-Bengali communal conflict in which many people from both communities were killed and thousands were left homeless.

By Rakhapura Media Group