Zardari expressed concern over Myanmar riots

Satellite imagery in a Human Rights Watch report documents how whole neighborhoods were destroyed following religious violence in Burma last month —at least 800 buildings, mostly homes, burned to the ground. The Washington Post' s Max Fisher ...

Five Buddhists standing trial for their alleged role in stirring anti-Muslim riots in central Burma in March were released on bail by a regional court on Wednesday, according to local sources. The five males, including four juveniles, from Pegu ...

Seven Muslims in Burma have been charged with the murder of a Buddhist monk that fueled deadly communal riots two months ago in central Meikhtila city, lawyers said Tuesday. Six of them face the death penalty if convicted in one of the most high ...

1st remarks since start of religious rioting Burmese President Thein Sein said today that his government will use force if necessary to quell deadly religious rioting that started last week, as attacks on Muslims by Buddhist mobs continued in ...

Riots were sparked in the small town of Oakkan, about 100 kilometers north of Rangoon, after a woman accidentally knocked into a young monk, authorities said, amid acute Buddhist-Muslim tensions following a series of attacks in March. Authorities ...

Sectarian riots in central Burma have claimed 43 lives, 86 injured and have left 11376 homeless, state media has reported. Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims were sparked by an argument in a gold shop in Meiktila, a town in Mandalay division ...

. BBC Online The BBC has obtained police video showing officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the town of Meiktila. The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses. A man ...

The BBC has obtained video footage which shows the Burmese police standing by as shops, homes and mosques are looted and burnt, and failing to intervene as Buddhist mobs, including monks, kill fleeing Muslims. It has emerged as EU ministers meet to ...

(MEIKHTILA, Burma) — A lawmaker says at least 20 people have died in two days of rioting between Buddhists and Muslims in a central Burma town where residents remained locked in their homes, too afraid to walk the streets. Opposition National ...