One of Myanmar’s top Muslim leaders urged calm Tuesday, after he accused a militia-style monk and his disciples of trying to incite violence by building an unauthorized Buddhist structure in the shadow of a mosque in the country’s southeast.
“These are people who want to create an unstable situation [between the majority Buddhists and minority Christians and Muslims],” Tin Maung Than, secretary-general of the country’s official Muslim body, the Islamic Religious Affairs Council Myanmar, told Anadolu Agency by phone Tuesday.
“We request our people not to quarrel with them. We don’t want to see inter-communal violence anymore.”
On Monday evening, powerful Buddhist monk Thu Zana, known as Myaing Gyi Ngu Sayadaw (abbot), and his disciples constructed a stupa — a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing Buddhist relics — in Shwe Gone village in Karen State despite objections from mosque caretakers and regional government officials. (Courtesy of The Muslim News)
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