Fresh Violence in Myanmar Leaves Mosque, Monastery Burned
Violence between Roghinya Muslims and Myanmar Buddhists in the Myanmar state of Rakhine “killed three people and left more than 400 houses, a monastery and a mosque burned to the ground,” reports Kocha Olarn for CNN. The tension between the two groups has been escalating since June, when violence first broke out. The Rohginya, an ethnic Muslim minority, believe that “they have been persecuted by the Myanmar military during its decades of authoritarian rule.”