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Myanmar Conflict: An Apathetic Government Gives Little Hope to Threatened Muslims © AP By  Usaid (Muneeb) Siddiqui  PolicyMic October 10, 2013 A fresh outbreak of violence in the troubled Rakhine state of Myanmar  claimed the lives of five Muslims  in the town of Thandwe earlier this month. In addition to that, nearly a thousand Buddhist protestors torched nearly 50 homes of belonging to Muslim residents including a neighbourhood mosque. A general anti-Muslim sentiment  has proliferated in post-military Burma . The Rohingya Muslim sect in particular has been at end of extreme violence from the majority Buddhist population of Rakhine. Coupled with the institutionalized discrimination faced by the Rohingya on a daily basis, their place in Burmese society remains precarious at best. Condemnation from  around the world  has been profound, where even the highest Buddhist authority, the Dalai Lama, has called for an immediate end to Muslim...

The Genocide Happening Right Now That Nobody Is Talking About © AP PolicyMic   August 27, 203 Over the last two years, the positive news of Myanmar embracing democracy and engaging with the developed world has been consistently offset by reports of  sectarian violence  between Buddhists and the minority Rohingya Muslim population. Estimates suggest that 300 Muslims have been killed and up to 300,000 displaced since the military junta nominally ceded power in 2011. No longer is this violence restricted to the state of Rakhine where the majority of Burmese Muslims live. Major incidents are reported in states as far south as Thaketa, just a few miles from Yangon, the cultural, historic and business capitol of the country which is now awash with western businessmen drinking expensive cocktails in expensive hotels. This worrying trend of more frequent and more widely spread violence threatens to derail the country’s turnaround. As violence in Myanmar creeps clo...