E/CN.4/1995/91 page 64 Myanmar In a communication dated 18 August 1994, the Special Rapporteur sent the Government of Myanmar the following information: "According to the information received, members of the Buddhist, Christian and Muslim religious communities continue to be persecuted. Muslim inhabitants of the Tamai district of Kawthaung (Victoria Point) allegedly suffer serious victimization by the SLORC authorities. It is claimed that the latter are attempting to demolish their mosque in order to build a store. In addition, 47 graves in the Muslim cemetery are reported to have been desecrated and dug up. It is also reported that the Muslim inhabitants of the Bayintnaung district have been threatened with expulsion. According to some reports, at least 1,000 Buddhist monks are imprisoned and monks are still being subjected to some repression. Temples are reported to be under army supervision and some of them are searched several times a day. Many monks have been forced to seek refuge in the jungle without any means of support and to leave the country. The Special Rapporteur has received information on the cases of the following monks: Ven. Baddanda Rajadhama Bi Wuntha, who was responsible for training 500 monks at Masoeyain monastery in Mandalay and who has allegedly been imprisoned in Mandalay since 1990 for having refused to attend religious ceremonies organized by the authorities; Ven. Baddanda Kaw Wi Dar Bi Wuntha, head monk of the ancient Masoeyain temple in Mandalay and responsible for training monks, who has allegedly been detained in Mandalay prison since 1990 for having refused to attend religious ceremonies organized by the authorities; Ven. Baddanda Tareelanka Bi Wuntha, head monk of the Ywarma religious school (Insein, Yangon), who has allegedly been detained in Insein prison since 1990 for having opposed the murder of two priests and two students on 8 August 1990 and for having boycotted official religious ceremonies. Ven. U. Yewarda, founder of the ’Union of Monks’ (’Thanka Thamaki’) in Mandalay, who was reportedly arrested on 19 October 1990 and imprisoned in Mandalay prison for having opposed the murder of monks and students on 8 August 1990 and for having boycotted official religious ceremonies. He was allegedly interned in a labour camp at Myitkyina (Kachin State); Awtha Dathara and Ne Meinda, young Buddhist monks who were allegedly arrested in October 1990 for having written poems during a police check of Mandalay Buddhist clerics of the Shangha Sammagi movement. Other monks who were arrested with them have allegedly died in prison because of prison conditions;