Sectarian violence shakes Burma
Burma's government called for calm after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
Burma's government called for calm Wednesday after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
Sectarian violence spread to a new region of Burma, with a mob burning shops in the northeastern town after unconfirmed rumors spread that a Muslim man had set fire to a Buddhist woman.
Many Buddhists and Muslims stayed locked inside their homes and shops were shuttered after two days of violence in Lashio, near the border with China, the latest region to fall prey to the country's spreading sectarian violence.
Burma's government called for calm after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
Hundreds of Buddhist men on motorcycles waved iron rods and bamboo poles and threw rocks on Wednesday, a day after a mosque and a Muslim orphanage were torched in a new wave of violence targeting the religious minority.
Burma's government called for calm Wednesday after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
