"These 5,000 houses were targeted as they belonged to Buddhists and Hindus ... It may be recalled that communal tensions had flared up in Rakhine state more than a decade back, which led to ...

I’m deep inside a magnificent Buddhist temple in the ruined city of Mrauk U in western Myanmar (formerly Burma), in embattled Rakhine State. Beginning around 1535, a thousand workers labored for ...

Rakhine State is in western Burma. There are 55 million Burmese, 90 percent of whom are Buddhists. Most Rohingyas are Muslim, though some are Hindu. They never mix with the Buddhists of Rakhine.

From there I saw the military and members of the Rakhine community take my wife ... Sometimes it was difficult because the Buddhist children would throw stones at us on our way to school.

They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades. Rohingya people say they are descendants of Muslims, perhaps Persian and Arab traders ...

Dozens have so far died and hundreds of homes have been burnt down in a week-long wave of deadly clashes between Muslim Rohingya and Buddhist Rakhine communities along the western, Andaman Sea ...

On Aug. 25, Rohingya insurgents attacked 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine. Several hundred of Inn Din’s Buddhist villagers took refuge in the monastery. About 80 soldiers arrived in ...