Myanmar Government Accused of Denying 12 Muslims for Trial

Middle East North Africa Financial Network

07 December 2015

An international human rights organization has slammed the Myanmar government for denying fair trial to 12 Muslim men accused of receiving training from a so-called “Myanmar Muslim Army”.

Defense lawyers for the men along with security experts have claimed that the group does not even exist suggesting that the government has invented a threat from a terrorist outfit just to justify its persecution of Muslims.

In a statement Sunday Fortify Rights claimed that authorities had allegedly tortured the defendants now facing trial at Aung Myay Thar San Township Court in Mandalay the country’s second-largest city.

… Little is known of the Myanmar Muslim Army outside of a brief mention in a 2015 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) report in which Rohan Gunaratna writes of “unconfirmed reports about the emergence of a new group called Myanmar Muslim Army (MMA) which is reportedly using Thai territory for training Myanmar Muslims”.

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