Interfaith marriages are rare in Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country. This couple, a Muslim man and a Buddhist woman were among those forced to flee their home after communal violence broke out in Meiktila in 2013. Photo: Nyan Lynn/IRIN By IRIN News July 15, 2014 YANGON, - In early July, a hundreds-strong mob of Buddhists converged on a shop in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city. According to rumours spread on social media, its Muslim owner had raped a Buddhist woman. The ensuing violence left two dead and a dozen injured. Since 2012 more than 240 people have died in communal violence fought along religious and ethnic lines, the victims overwhelmingly Muslim. Than Nyunt of the Interfaith Religious Group of Mandalay, told IRIN it was the intervention of both Muslim and Buddhist leaders that stopped violence in Mandalay from spreading - a significant achievement, experts and community leaders say, given the current polarized political atm...