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President Thein Sein has declared a state of emergency in western Myanmar following deadly clashes between local Buddhists and Muslims.

State television on Sunday said a dusk to dawn curfew had been imposed in the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe and three other townships. Public gatherings of more than five persons were also banned.

The move follows rioting on Friday in two other areas of Rakhine state that, according to state media, left at least seven people dead and 17 wounded, and saw hundreds of houses burned down.


 
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A young Buddhist monk sits behind a sleeping child at a monastery near the site of fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe.


 
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Ethnic Rakhine men hold homemade weapons as they walk in front of a house that was burnt during fighting between Buddhist and Muslim communities.


 
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A man walks though a burnt Rohingya village.


 
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Ethnic Rakhine people get water from a fire truck to extinguish fire set to their houses during the fighting.


 
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Buddhist men carry weapons as they guard their homes.


 
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An elderly ethnic Rakhine woman carries a stick for protection.


 
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A soldier stands near a plane carrying police personnel to help put an end to the violent clashes.


 
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Police stand guard in Sittwe.


 
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Rakhine Buddhist monks pray as hundreds of demonstrators gather at the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon after unrest flared in the country's west.


 
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Buddhist demonstrators pray at the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar during a protest against Rohingya Muslims, many of whom are considered to be immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.


 
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Rohingya Muslim protesters gather in front of a United Nations regional office in Bangkok, Thailand to call for an end to violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

 

 

Source : http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2012/06/201261173249593247.html