Sri Lanka arrests 6 in hunt for monks who pounded refugees
Five group and a lady are arrested and a supervision central pronounced several military officers were also underneath investigation. PHOTO: AFP
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan military pronounced Sunday they have arrested 6 people in their hunt for a host led by Buddhist monks who pounded Rohingya refugees final week.
The supervision of a Buddhist-majority nation has indicted a monks of working like “animals” during Tuesday’s conflict on a centre housing Rohingya Muslims including children on a hinterland of Colombo.
“We have identified a monks who led a attack,” an officer concerned in a review told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“We have deployed 3 teams to detain them.”
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Two military officers had to be hospitalised after a attack, in that monks and their supporters threw stones and crushed windows and furniture.
Five group and a lady have already been arrested and a supervision central pronounced several military officers were also underneath review for unwell to forestall a violence.
The refugees had arrived in Sri Lanka 5 months ago after a navy found them flapping in a vessel off a island’s north coast.
Before that, they had been vital in India for several years.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar in new years and while many are in interloper camps in Bangladesh, a sizeable minority have changed to other tools of South Asia.
They have been a aim of decades of state-backed harm and taste in especially Buddhist Myanmar, where many perspective them as bootleg immigrants from Bangladesh.
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Sri Lanka’s nonconformist Buddhist monks have tighten links with their ultra-nationalist counterparts in Myanmar. Both have been indicted of orchestrating assault opposite minority Muslims in a dual countries.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees voiced alarm over Tuesday’s conflict and urged Sri Lankans to uncover consolation for civilians journey harm and violence.
The 31 Rohingya refugees, including 16 children and 7 women, were evacuated by a military and accommodated during a former apprehension centre in a south of a island for their safety, according to a government.
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