Myanmar Muslim refugees take shelter in Lashio
Al Jazeera
May 30, 2013
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| Burmese Muslims arrive at a monastery used to shelter internally displaced people (Photo: Reuters) |
Thousands of Muslims who fled Myanmar's latest bout of sectarian violence have sought shelter in a Buddhist monastery guarded by army soldiers in the northeastern city of Lashio. The army transported Muslim families by the truckload on Thursday out of a neighbourhood in Lashio where overturned cars and motorcycles that had been charred a day earlier left black scars on the red earth. Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Lashio.
