{"id":78696,"date":"2013-03-23T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=78696"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T16:02:17","slug":"burma-ethnic-violence-erupts-between-muslims-and-buddhists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/burma-ethnic-violence-erupts-between-muslims-and-buddhists\/","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Ethnic Violence Erupts Between Muslims And Buddhists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burma\u00a0has issued a state of emergency in the central city of Meikhtila after three days of ethnic violence between Muslims and Buddhists has left scores dead, forced thousands to flee and left local homes and shops reduced to smoking rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Rioting began on Wednesday in the now ash-covered town, located 360 miles north of the commercial capital Rangoon, after an argument between a Muslim shopkeeper and his Buddhist customers erupted into a street brawl that ended with the death of a Buddhist monk, the Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/mar\/22\/burma-ethnic-violence-dead-meikhtila\">more<\/a><\/span> in the Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":78698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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