Sad reminder: A man riding his motorcycle past the ruins of a mosque in Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state. — AFP
Kyaukphyu: Htoo Maung sits down to lunch, sharing a bowl of traditional noodle soup with old friends, an ordinary act that has become extraordinary in Myanmar’s Rakhine state – because he is Muslim, and they are Buddhist.
They used to live side by side as neighbours. But now he can only visit them under a strict curfew enforced by armed guards before he must return to the muddy camp where he and the rest of Kyaukphyu town’s Muslims have been confined for seven years.
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