Burma’s Meik-hti-lar Burning By Race Riots!

(This post is direct translation from the EMG and other Burmese
blogs.)









A Mosque-and-madrassa burning in Meik-hti-lar.

Meik-hti-lar in Middle-Burma has been burning since yesterday midday by the ugly race riots ignited by a small commercial dispute at a gold shop in the main
market.



A rural Burmese couple was trying to sell a gold hair-clip to
the gold shop and they claimed the