Kaladan News

Dated: Sunday August 17, 2003

 SPDC Authorities and DKBA Jointly Checked Mosques

Mae Sot, August 17: The State Peace and Development

Council (SPDC) authorities and their collaborators

Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) were jointly

checking the

Mosques in Karen State and Pegu Devision of Burma, on

August 01, 2003, according to

Burma Agency for News.

On that day, Captain Min Tun Win Naing from Light

Infantry Battalion No.35 and U Kyaw Naing Maw from

immigration department went to the  “ Min Hla Thine

Tara Mosque” under Min Hla Township of Pegu Devision

in Burma and inquired about the mosque from the mosque

Committee.  They asked the date of establishment,

names of the donors or supporters and the number of

mosque goers praying everyday. They said it was only

for security reasons, according to a relative of U

Maung Han, a mosque Committee member of Pegu Division

who is now in Mae Sot.

On August 5,2003, Colonel Tha Too of DKBA went to the

mosque of Line Bwe Town in Karen State and asked the

Committee members not to involve in political

activities and threatened that the mosque would be

burnt down in to ashes like “Kamaw Kashu Mosque” in

case of any political problem, according to a mosque

Committee member as well as a trader who declined to

be identified told on August 15.

The Muslims of Karen State and Pegu Division are now

in fear and trembling because of possible incident

like the one happened to Kamaw Kashu mosque when the

SPDC is facing political and economic unrest, source

further said.

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