A Muslim man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison in
Myanmar for an attack on a Buddhist woman that triggered a bout of
religious violence last month.
The man, who was
described by state media as a 48-year-old drug addict, was convicted in a
court in Lashio of intent to kill, assault and drug use, a police
source told the AFP news agency on Wednesday.
The
24-year-old victim, a petrol vendor, suffered burns in the attack, which
provoked Buddhist-Muslim riots in the town that left at least one
person dead and saw a mosque and orphanage burned.
The
violence last month followed a serious spate of attacks in March, where
dozens of people were killed in central Myanmar, and thousands of homes
were set ablaze.
Ten Muslims have been sentenced to prison
terms of up to 28 years in connection with the March violence in the
central town of Meiktila. No Buddhists are yet known to have been
convicted.
Communal unrest last year in the western state of
Rakhine left about 200 people dead and 140,000 displaced, mainly
Rohingya Muslims.
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