Violence in Myanmar

Violence in Myanmar

Associated Press/Khin Maung Win - A woman, injured during ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims, receives medical treatment in a hospital in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles)

6000 Muslims refugees have taken shelter im make shift camps, being safe guaraded by the military.President Thein Sein, a former general who vowed to bring democracy to Myanmar after half a century of military rule, imposed a state of emergency in the region. in 2012 also, ethnic Rakhine Budhists and Rohingya Muslims clashed which resulted in killing of hundreds of persons mostly Muslims and displaced over a lakh. The Rohingya are widely perceived as illegal migrants and foreigners from Bangladesh; the Muslim population of Meikhtila is believed to be mostly of Indian origin.

Occasional isolated violence involving Myanmar's majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities has occurred for decades, even under the authoritarian military governments that ruled the country from 1962 to 2011.