Myanmar’s communal violence : When praying is not enough | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/04/myanmar%E2%80%99s-communal-violence?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/prayingnotenough
AN IMPORTANT new report from Human Rights Watch on the violence last year in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state has particular resonance for this blog. Two days last October in Mrauk-u in Rakhine marked for me a low point in a long career in journalism. After some time reporting in Sittwe on the aftermath of the terrible violence in June between the Buddhist, ethnic-Rakhine majority and the Muslim Rohingya minority, we had taken the five-hour boat trip upriver to the ancient capital of what used to be known as Arakan.