Hundreds of homes burned and gunfire rang out as sectarian violence raged for a fifth day between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in western Myanmar on Thursday, pushing the death toll to nearly 60 and testing the country's nascent democracy.
Security forces struggled to stem Myanmar's worst communal unrest since clashes in June killed more than 80 people and displaced at least 75,000 in Rakhine State.
The latest violence in Rakhine has spread to several towns, including commercially important Kyaukpyu, where a multi-billion-dollar China-Myanmar pipeline starts.
The violence is one of the biggest tests yet of a reformist government that has vowed to forge unity in one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries. Full story...
Related posts:
Security forces struggled to stem Myanmar's worst communal unrest since clashes in June killed more than 80 people and displaced at least 75,000 in Rakhine State.
The latest violence in Rakhine has spread to several towns, including commercially important Kyaukpyu, where a multi-billion-dollar China-Myanmar pipeline starts.
The violence is one of the biggest tests yet of a reformist government that has vowed to forge unity in one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries. Full story...
Related posts:
- Buddhist monks in Myanmar hold mass rally to deport Rohingyas...
- Aung San Suu Kyi facing backlash for silence on Rohingya abuses...
- Burmese Rohingya Muslims’ unabated genocide, but no one cares...
- In Buddhist Myanmar, monks gone wild...
- Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: does Aung San Suu Kyi care about the Rohingyas?
- Monks in Burma call for boycott of Rohingyas, block huminatarian aid...
- Rohingya: the world's most forgotten and abused people...
No comments:
Post a Comment