Rakhine state government officials are to demolish more than 3,000 allegedly illegal buildings, including a dozen mosques and more than 30 other religious buildings, in Maungdaw District, RFA’s Myanmar Service reported on 20 September.
During a meeting in the state capital of Sittwe, a committee of village elders was convened to take stock of illegal buildings that need to be razed, Rakhine State Security and Border Affairs Minister Col. Htein Lin told RFA.
Those buildings include 12 mosques, 35 religious school buildings and more than 2,500 houses and other structures that were constructed over the years without permission from the authorities, he was quoted as saying.