Violence in western Burma: the balance sheet amounted to 82 dead

At least 82 people were killed in violence this week between Buddhists and Muslims in western Burma, Saturday, Oct. 27 said a government official. Under condition of anonymity, the official said there had also been "129 injured". After several weeks of calm in the Rakhine State under a state of emergency since the first clashes in June, violence broke out again Sunday between ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority considered by the UN as one of the most persecuted of the world. The previous report released by the media state reported 67 people killed and a hundred wounded and nearly 3,000 houses burned. Some 75,000 people were displaced by the June violence, the vast majority of Rohingyas, who still live in miserable conditions just outside of Sittwe in camps where they lack food and care. The new wave of fighting has driven thousands of other Muslims to flee.