Video mosques were burned and charred to kill me in the streets of Myanmar Burma AFP / imposed a state of emergency in the city of Mictala central Myanmar (Burma) on Friday (March 22 / March 2013) on the third day of violence between Muslims and Buddhists have killed at least twenty people were killed while deployed charred bodies in Ahawara.oukal journalists in Location the entire neighborhoods in the city and mosques were burned, while controlled by armed men on the streets with sticks and knives. He said one of the citys population in a telephone conversation with the agency «AFP»: «We are scared and are trying to stay in our house safely». The authorities imposed a state of emergency in four towns in order to allow the army to intervene to restore order and help local police overtaken by events. The presidency said in a statement signed by the President, Thein Sein said that «the riots and terrorism spread broadly», stressing that «it is necessary to provide help by the military» to restore security. And raises the escalation of violence between the two groups, which is the most serious incidents since last year in the west of the country, fears that extends religious tension and threaten the country that are deep reforms. The clashes began last Wednesday because of a fight between a Muslim and a vendor customers, then stretched and got out of the control of the police afterwards. He threatened the priests and Buddhist youths armed with sticks and knives, yesterday a group of journalists and forced them to hand them over memory chips for cameras in their possession. And enables a number of them from leaving the city yesterday afternoon to the protection of the security forces, but they were subjected to inspection for the last time by a group of rioters. Did not publish official count for the victims of the clashes. But a police official told «AFP», on condition of anonymity, said that at least twenty people were killed. The «appreciate that number much higher, but is difficult for us to obtain the numbers». The MP for the National League for Democracy opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi, Win Htein for killing 25 people, while the largest male population figures. He continued that the MP «riots going on here and there, as looting taking place», stressing that hundreds of Muslims have been regrouped in safe places. And the international community to take these acts of violence seriously, after a month of two waves of unrest in 2012 in Rakhine State (West) between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims TBT killed at least 180 people dead and more than 115 thousand displaced people. Revealed the violence that caused the displacement of a large number of Rohingya in the boats to Southeast Asia, strongly rooted racism in Myanmar Buddhist community, which considered that the overwhelming majority of Buddhism is an essential part of the national culture. Does not recognize the state of about 800 thousand people isolated from the Rohingya in Rakhine State as a national minority. After decades of persecution to which they were subjected by the military regime is still the majority of citizens consider them as illegal immigrants does not hide its hostility towards them. The United Nations called for calm, while across the United States Ambassador Derek Mitchell expressed concern for officials, according to the official in the State Department.
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