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Myanmar Muslims seek shelter in monastery

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Thousands of Muslims who fled Myanmar’s latest bout of sectarian violence have sought shelter in a Buddhist monastery guarded by army soldiers in Lashio. The army transported Muslim families by the truckload on Thursday out of a neighbourhood in the northeastern city where overturned cars and motorcycles that had been charred a day earlier left black scars on the red earth. “We heard things could get worse, so we waved down soldiers and asked them for help,” said 59-year-old Khin Than, who arrived at the monastery on Thursday morning with her four children and sacks of luggage along with several hundred other Muslims. Buddhist monks organised meals for the newly arrived refugees,…

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