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Muslims From Yangon Share Stories of Discrimination

A young Rohingya man bearing the scars of a shooting by Local Buddhists during the violence in June 2012. Photo by  Dougal Thomas . Hanna Ingber New York Times July 12, 2013 Myanmar’s Muslim minority has faced a series of deadly attacks over the past year that have tarnished the country’s image even as it is trying to transform itself into a stable, peaceful democracy after decades of military rule. As my colleague Thomas Fuller has reported,  sectarian clashes in the western state of Rakhine  in 2012 left at least 167 dead and forced 100,000 people, most of them Muslims, to flee their homes. Buddhist mobs went on a  rampage in Meiktila  in central Myanmar in March, killing dozens. And critics say a  radical Buddhist movement  has fanned the flames of discrimination, discouraging Buddhists from doing business with Muslims or intermarrying. The violence has raised fears among  Muslims in Yangon  and elsewhere that they, too, c...