Malaysia warns Myanmar immigrants fearing sectarian clashes
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| Fighting in several neighborhoods around Kuala Lumpur earlier this month triggered worries in Malaysia that tensions between Myanmar's Buddhists and Muslim minority had spilled over to a country that hosts hundreds of thousands of Myanmar nationals. (Reuters) |
June 13, 2013
Malaysia's government on Thursday warned immigrants from neighboring Myanmar not to restart sectarian clashes that recently killed four people.
The fighting in several neighborhoods around Kuala Lumpur earlier this month triggered worries in Malaysia that tensions between Myanmar's Buddhists and Muslim minority had spilled over to a country that hosts hundreds of thousands of Myanmar nationals.
Malaysian police are holding 250 Myanmar citizens from a security sweep following the violence because they were found without valid immigration documents. It is not clear whether they would be charged in court or deported.
"The quarrel they have back home is brought to our country,'' Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Jaafar told reporters after a meeting with Myanmar's deputy ministers for foreign affairs and labor.
Police are now monitoring locations where Myanmar immigrants are known to work, the home ministry said in a statement.
Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Zin Yaw said rival gangs in Kuala Lumpur appeared to have used religious grievances as an excuse to start fights that were not directly related to waves of violence targeting mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya community in Myanmar in the past year that killed several hundred people.
Ven. Dr Ashin Indaka from Myanmar charged RM400 per who want to be monk at SAMNAK SAMBODHI TAMAN DESA JAYA BUDDHIST TEMPLE...ANYONE GO THERE, MUST CAREFUL...THIS IS MAKE BUDDHIST SHAMEFUL...Buddha is never asks money from his students..A lot people unhappy with that cost...
Buddhism, a religion over 2,000 years old, focuses on the here and now. Buddhists live in the present, don't worship a creator god and teach basic tenants that are straightforward and practical. If you want to become a monk, you must meditate, learn the teachings of the Buddha and practice the Buddhist religion.
But Ven. Dr Ashin Indaka make easy or make short cut for who want to be monks, he waited for Chinese New Year and just give yellow robes to devotees and shave head to observe precepts.
Malaysia Buddhist Association, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia