Report on Unrest Is at Odds With Account of Myanmar (the ny times) By GERRY MULLANYJAN. 24, 2014 HONG KONG — The United Nations report this week that rampaging mobs in western Myanmar killed at least four dozen people, mostly Muslims, did more than contradict the government’s official stance. It also put a spotlight on the country’s continuing religious and ethnic strife — and what some say is a flawed government response — even as Myanmar tries to burnish its international image. Symbolically, this is supposed to be an important moment for Myanmar in its transition to democracy. In taking over the annual rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this month, it assumed a responsibility the government considers prestigious. And after five decades of military dictatorship, Myanmar has been moving on several fronts to shore up its international image, hosting the Southeast Asian Games, a regional sporting event, last month and releasing what it said was the last...