Buddhist Mobs Attack Muslim Homes In Myanmar

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-myanmar-violence-idUSBRE94S0JD20130529

(Reuters) - Security forces struggled to control Buddhist mobs who burned Muslim homes on Wednesday for a second day in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio in a dangerous widening of ultra-nationalist Buddhist violence.

Scores of young men and boys on motorbikes and on foot marauded through the city of 130,000 people, some singing nationalist songs, a day after a mosque and religious school were torched.

One person was killed and four were wounded in fighting, Ye Htut, spokesman for President Thein Sein, said in a Facebook post. Police fired guns to disperse the crowds, he said.

The violence in this city in a mountainous region near Myanmar's northeastern border with China, about 700 km (430 miles) from the commercial capital Yangon, shows how far anti-Muslim anger is spreading in the Buddhist-dominated country.

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Yet another indication of the swelling contempt for the Muslim faith around the world.

You don't just go around pouring petrol on people and setting them on fire without backlash.