Muslims urge Myanmar government to provide better security

Myanmar's main Muslim organizations called on the government Wednesday to protect them, a day after Buddhist mobs were reported to have killed up to four Muslims and burnt a mosque in the western state of Rakhine. "The Muslim minority is feeling great sorrow after being attacked and we are now living in a high state of fear," said a joint statement issued by the country's four biggest Muslim organizations, reported DPA. The latest round of communal violence began on Saturday in the town of Thandwe, 270 kilometres north-west of Yangon, and spread to nearby villages on Tuesday.