Fearing violence, two Muslim religious schools in Myanmar’s largest city were closed after an anti-Muslim mob claimed they were being operated as mosques, a police source said Saturday.
“Two schools were sealed off temporarily” Friday night, a senior officer at Yangon Police Force, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Anadolu Agency.
“We did it without any court decree because we wanted to prevent further unnecessary conflict,” he said by phone, adding that police at the scene dispersed the mob peacefully.
Anti-Muslim movements have been on the rise in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar since an outbreak in communal violence in the western Rakhine state in 2012.