August 12, 201412 yr Curfew Lifted as Stability Returns to Mandalay MANDALAY — A nighttime curfew in Mandalay will be lifted starting Monday as stability has returned more than five weeks after inter-communal violence raged in the city, a senior local official said. A 9pm-5am curfew was imposed in Burma’s second city on July 3 after violence between Buddhists and Muslims on the preceding two nights resulted in the deaths of two people. The curfew was reduced on July 28 to 9pm-3am and changed again days later to begin at 10pm. Continues here:- http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/curfew-lifted-stability-returns-mandalay.html
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