170 loved ones mourn

The call of prayer collapsed last Friday in Sagaing, hundreds of Muslim Myanmar’s central mosque in central mosques.

They were eager to hold the last Friday prayer for Ramadan, who will mark the end of the holy period for several days.

Then, at 12:51 local time (06:21 GMT), a deadly earthquake hit. Three mosques, including the largest, Myoma, killed almost everyone inside.

Hundreds of kilometers away, the former Imam of the Massa Mosque, Soe Nay Oo, Mae Sot’un felt the earthquake in Thailand.

In the following days, he knew that his relatives and friends were killed in 170 friends and members of the mosques. Some were the leading figures in the city’s close-woven Muslim community.

“I think about the children of all the people and victims who lost their lives – some think about young children,” he said. “I can’t keep my tears when you talk about it.”

2,700 people were killed in the earthquake near the second city of Myanmine, Myanmine in Sagaing and Mandalame. The death toll is expected to increase because the rescuers continue to remove the institutions.

Although the area is recognized with ancient Buddhist temples, the cities were also an important Muslim population.

According to the figures given by the country’s leader thousand Aung Hlaing, 500 Muslims died while praying in their mosques.

Witnesses in Sagaing said the road to the BBC was the worst shot of the road in Mosques, on myoma Avenue and the city. Many other houses on the street collapsed.

Hundreds of people are sheltered on the side of the road, or for their homeless, or he is very afraid to return home if they are homeless. It is reported that food products are scarce.

In MyMA, he was not only departed in the collapse of more than 60 people, as a result, more died in Myodaw and Moekia mosques. More objects were still removed on Tuesday.

According to SOE Nay OO, there are indicators of worshipers to escape due to more recipients from the survival of the community.

Currently, after I flee myanmar, he lives in Mae Sot with his wife and daughter A blow that happened in 2021.

According to him, there were organs outside the main prayer hall, and in the area where the worshipers werehes themselves. Some, while others looked like attempts to get away from the collapsing building, but they squeezed the hands of other people.

Among many loved ones, Soe Nay Oo was one of his wife’s cousin. His death, said, 13 years was the “most painful thing I endured” in the year.

“He was the one who loves his love the most,” Soe Nay Oo said. “Everyone in the family loved him. The loss is unbearable for us.”

A respected businessman who did his wife’s cousin, Islam pilgrimage, died in Mecca.

“He always lay NYI (‘I’m a little brother’ river) …

“He always had for us when he was necessary. I lost the people I love the brothers like him.”

Some of the close friends who die, include a former assistant for a former assistant who remembered for a strong job and a remembered talent and remembering the Qur’an.

The director of the local state school, the only female guardian of the Myoma Mosque, has died. Soe Nay was remembered as a generous spirit that will pay for mosque programs from his pocket.

He said that if he heard another person from the society that died every time he lives a wave of sadness. “I feel devastated … I always come to my mind, the memories I have given them.

“Although there were no close relatives, they were always welcoming me, and those who watched my prayers and prayed together.”

Not to lose their death in Ramadan. “All the way, I returned to God’s house, I would say. They will be remembered as a martyr,” he said.

As affected by the earthquake, like other regions of Myanmar, struggle to fight the transparent number of corpses.

He became difficult with the ongoing battles between the military hunt and resistance groups. The Muslim cemetery in Sagaing is close to an area managed by the rebel People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and closed to the public for several years. After the military earthquake, some of the wider Sagaing region continued to bomb.

According to SOE Nay OO, the Muslim community of Sagaing City, Soe Nay OO, using the only bridge connecting the two cities, the IrrajDddy was forced to move the bodies of the dead to Mandalay.

Mandalay’s bodies remain in the largest mosque for the burial. Some have not been buried in the Islamic tradition for 24 hours a day.

“For Muslims, we cannot bury our families at the end of their journey,” he said.

The survivors were trying to help the rescue as they cope with trauma. “Some of my society told me to pray. Let me say, they could not explain the loss when they talked for them.”

Soe Nay is hard to stay away from the old congregation for oo. Approve Many people from Myanmiam that migrates abroadHe feels the guilt of the right castle.

“If I was still an imam, if I was the time of the earthquake, I would be with them, I could accept it in peace. If not, I could have been on the ground to do everything I can.

“I can’t get back now. It’s painful to think about it.

Soe nay oo began to oob. “At the moment, I haven’t felt this sad and frustrating feelings, before in my life. I will cry hard.

He adds that he cannot sleep for days. His anxiety has yet grew up in a while, including some family members, including Mandalay.

Soe Nay Oo has stopped working for a human rights group in Thailand and now helps to coordinate rescue work in Sagaing – helps to share any information that you can get from their contacts in the city.

At least 1,000 Muslims in the region have been affected by the fact that it still needs help.

“When someone on the Earth asks only relief when you want help and I can help them.”