State of Emergency in Western Burma After Violence

A state of emergency was declared in Burma’s Rakhine State (also spelled Arakan State) amid escalating sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims.
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State of Emergency in Western Burma After Violence
Rakhine Buddhist monks and demonstrators hold banners and pictures as they gather at the Shwedagon pagoda after unrest flared in the western Myanmar state and at least seven people were killed, in Yangon on June 10. (Soe Than Win/AFP/GettyImages).
6/10/2012
Updated:
10/1/2015
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