In this file photo, a boy sits in a burnt area after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State near Sittwe, Myanmar May 3, 2016. (Reuters photo)YANGON -- Police in Myanmar's main city fired warning shots overnight to break up a confrontation between dozens of Buddhists and Muslims that left at least one person injured. Rohingya in Myanmar are largely denied citizenship and basic rights. The majority of them -- more than 1 million -- live in western Myanmar's Rakhine state and cannot travel without special permission. Tensions between Buddhists and Muslims has spread across Myanmar since violent conflict broke out between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya in 2012.

Source: Bangkok Post May 10, 2017 07:07 UTC