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                Two Dead in Buddhist-Muslim Violence in Myanmar

   by VOA News

   Officials in Myanmar, also known as Burma, say two people have died in
   Buddhist-Muslim violence in the country's second largest city,
   Mandalay.

   The deaths occurred during a second night of violence that erupted
   Tuesday when a Buddhist mob attacked a tea shop following rumors that
   its Muslim owner raped a Buddhist woman.

   On the first night of violence, police said they used rubber bullets to
   disperse hundreds of rioters armed with stones and knives, injuring
   five people. Calm was eventually restored Wednesday, but unrest broke
   out again in the evening, leaving one Buddhist and one Muslim dead.

   Myanmar has seen periodic waves of anti-Muslim violence since June
   2012, when riots broke out following sectarian disputes between
   majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.

   The violence has since spread elsewhere, killing at least 200 people,
   mostly Muslims. Tens of thousands of people have also been left
   homeless.

   Large-scale sectarian violence had yet to reach Mandalay, a historic
   center of Buddhism, where the two religious communities have largely
   lived in peace with one another.

   Myanmar, a country of 60 million people, is recovering from 50 years of
   harsh and direct military rule, which formally ended in 2011.
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