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Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 - 12:18 Makkah mean time-6-9-1436
 Myanmar, (IINA) - A group of Buddhist monks have sought a ban on headscarves worn by Muslim girls in Myanmar, where minority Rohingya Muslims are facing perpetual violence by Buddhist majority population in the Arakan state of the country, according to media reports.
Fueling religious tension in Burma, an influential Buddhist group has called for banning the Islamic headscarves in schools.
“We will demand seriously for the government to ban Muslim students wearing the burqa in government schools and to ban the killing of innocent animals on their Eid holiday,” the Organization for the Protection of Race and Religion, Ma Ba Tha, said in a statement cited by the Guardian on Monday.
Ma Ba Rha demands were announced during its last weekend conference that was held in Rangoon to discuss plans to promote a “nationalist agenda” ahead of this year’s election.
Attended by about 1,300 monks, the conference released a list of recommendations to impose further restrictions on the country’s Muslim community.
Formed two years ago, the Buddhist Ma Ba Tha has been repeatedly accused of spreading inter-communal violence in the restive country by attacking the Muslim community.
“The Ma Ba Tha have become an unaccountable and arrogant political force based on extremist religious and social views, like a fifth column using Buddhism to serve shady political and economic interests,” David Mathieson, a senior researcher on Burma for Human Rights Watch, told the Guardian.
Between 2012 and 2013, Buddhist mob attacks have left hundreds of Rohingya Muslims killed and evacuated more than 140,000 from their homes.
The violence has displaced nearly 29,000 people, more than 97 percent of whom are Rohingya Muslims, according to the United Nations.
Many now live in camps, adding to 75,000 mostly Rohingya displaced in June 2012, after a previous break out of sectarian violence.
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