"Three Muslim men peered over a
bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Myanmar. They
gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for
rising dust, a sign of an approaching mob. It was a false alarm. But a day
earlier, on Wednesday, about 100 Buddhists armed with sticks had gathered
outside the fence, threatening to burn the village and kill them, said the
villagers of Win Kite, about a two-hour drive from Myanmar's largest city,
Yangon."