U.N. envoy warns of deepening ethnic divisions in Myanmar

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U.N. envoy warns of deepening ethnic divisions in Myanmar

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-envoy-warns-deepening-ethnic-divisions-myanmar-182849481.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cZuao5D4R9T0Xe4uA6uXnw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-07-26T182849Z_1007000001_LYNXMPEA6P09U_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-MYANMAR-VIOLENCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Rohingya Muslim family, whose members have all fallen sick, poses in a village at Maungdaw" align="left" title="A Rohingya Muslim family, whose members have all fallen sick, poses in a village at Maungdaw" border="0" /></a>By Paul Mooney YANGON (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official on Saturday warned of a growing polarization between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Myanmar and said the living conditions in camps housing displaced Muslims were deplorable. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, held a news conference at the end of a 10-day visit to the country and called on the government to tackle the recurring issue of inter-communal violence. Lee's itinerary included camps in the western state of Rakhine housing some 140,000 stateless Muslim Rohingya.</p><br clear="all"/>

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