Six Buddhists to face trial for murdering Burmese Muslims

August 17, 2013
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RANGOON, Burma – Six Buddhists will face trial for murder this month over the lynching of ten Muslim bus passengers that sparked sectarian unrest in western Burma last year, officials said Thursday (August 15th) according to AFP.

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