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Being informed - or not - is sometimes a challenge in our info-swamped world. 
For instance,  I have read that Buddhist and Muslim tensions, in modern times at least, were inflamed during WW2. 
It seems some Muslims understood that by helping the British defeat the Japanese they were carve off a chunk of Burma for themselves. 
Apparently the Buddhist majority wasn't having it. 

And just look at a map. 
Ethnic and religious motivated strife is the way of things in these parts.
Buddhist Burma borders Muslim Bangladesh which had it's own genocidal slaughter in 1971. 
Obviously, the Burmese government is taking no chances that a  splinter Muslim state is still possible. 
Don't get me wrong, the violence and suffering are, and should be, intolerable but as Westerners we need to realize that our good guy/bad guy TV show justice doesn't apply to the majority of the planet.

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