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| Myanmar Buddhist Monks Rally against Global Islamic Body |
| 2012-10-13 |
| [An Nahar] Several thousand monks erupted into the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city Friday to protest against a world Islamic body's efforts to help Moslem Rohingya in strife-hit Rakhine state, organizers said. Holding banners reading "No OIC in Myanmar", the monks gathered in Mandalay to urge the government to block a plan by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those which member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain... to open an office in the country. "We cannot accept the OIC here. We will continue our protest until they give up," one of the demo leaders, Thaw Bi Ta, told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone. "The OIC is not working for human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... but for Moslem rights. We have our suspicions about them. They never reject Moslem Death Eaters," he said. "We want peace between all ethnicities and religions. We have no problem with Moslems in the country." Sectarian tensions are running high following Buddhist-Rohingya festivities in June in western Rakhine which left dozens of people dead and forced tens of thousands more to seek refuge in temporary shelters. |
| Posted by:Fred |