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Myanmar's government has called for calm after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the northeastern Shan state. At least one person has died and four others were injured, state television said. Authorities imposed a curfew late on Tuesday in Lashio, about 700km northeast of Yangon, after a mob of 200 local residents surrounded a local police station demanding they hand over a Muslim detainee. Nay Win, 48, a Muslim from a nearby township, was arrested after allegedly setting fire to Aye Aye Win, 24, a Shan Buddhist, earlier in the day after the two had an altercation at a petrol station, Lashio police said. The woman was admitted to hospital. "According to witnesses, she was not burned seriously but has injuries on her face and arms," Sai Sam Min, a member of parliament from Lashio, said. Jim Della-Giacoma, of the International Crisis Group, talks about the latest violence in Myanmar Al Jazee...

Burma’s ‘hidden genocide’: A rare visit to Rohingya refugee camps In western Burma, 140,000 people have been forced from their homes by communal violence. Their camps are now at risk of being inundated by monsoons. GEMUNU AMARASINGHE / AP A Rohingya man pushes a rickshaw leaving a camp for displaced Rohingya people in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Some members of the Rohingya minority started to evacuate for safer shelters ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, while others refused to leave, mistrusting the government. RAKHINE STATE, BURMA—As a mob of Arakanese Buddhists descended on their village, Ma Nu, 52, and her family pushed off in their fishing boat. “The day before, we were given leaflets, telling us to leave,” says Ma Nu, a Rohingya Muslim. “We lived together for decades. We never thought anything like this could happen.” From the water, they watched the violence unfold. Stragglers were attacked and houses were looted...