“We questioned the young policeman. He said he tried to stop them but he wasn't able to and ran away back to the police station”
Source/Credit: The Independent UK
By Simon Lewis | July 5, 2017
Police flee scene in Sittwe as Rakhine Buddhists beat 55-year-old Maung Nu to death
A policeman in Burma fled the scene of a deadly mob attack on Rohingya Muslims that has put the troubled western state of Rakhine on edge, two police officials said on Wednesday.
A group of Rakhine Buddhists threw bricks at Rohingya men in the state capital of Sittwe on Tuesday, killing one - identified as Maung Nu, also known as Monir Ahmad, 55 - the office of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said in a statement.
Two police officers told Reuters an unarmed junior policeman was with the Muslim men at the time of the attack but was unable to protect them from the mob.
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