Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
Buddhist monks and politicians have used an unshackled media to stoke anti-Muslim violence.By MURRAY HIEBERTAND GREGORY POLING Just two years into Burma’s reform program, the country’s transition to democracy is threatened from an unexpected direction. An...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
By SHIBANI MAHTANI The U.S. Embassy has warned against travel to parts of Myanmar after clashes between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims that authorities said killed at least 40 people last week in the central town of Meikhtila. The warning comes amid new...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
AFP – Muslim homes have been targeted with “brutal efficiency” in deadly new unrest in Myanmar, a UN envoy who has just been to the troubled country said Tuesday. Envoy Vijay Nambiar said that “incendiary propaganda” had been used to stir unrest between Buddhist...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
Rioting close to centres of power could be pretext for military to seize powerBy Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun columnistThe deaths and destruction caused by violence between Buddhists and Muslims in central Burma in recent days were not isolated incidents, but...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
Margaret Besheer UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations’ top official for Burma said Tuesday that recent sectarian violence in the central part of the country was “clearly targeted” against Muslim communities in the mostly Buddhist nation. Vijay Nambiar, the U.N....
