Burma’s Rohingya Muslims Targeted by Buddhist Mob Violence

by Brendan Brady Jun 27, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Muslims from an obscure ethnic group in western Burma have become targets of vicious Buddhist mob attacks. Brendan Brady reports from Rakhine state on the increasing violence.

A woman cries moments after she and other Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Burma, were intercepted by Bangladeshi border authorities, June 13, 2012. Bangladesh has refused boatloads of Rohingya Muslims, officials said, despite growing calls by the international community for the border to be opened. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty)

A doctor attempts to stanch the bleeding from a gun shot wound to San Shar Aung, a Buddhist Rakhine, in Kyauk Taw township hospital on October 25, 2012 in Kyauk Taw, Burma. Over 20,000 people have been left displaced following violent clashes between Muslim and Buddhist groups in the country which began in June. (Kaung Htet/Getty)

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