Encounter

BURMA SECTARIAN CONFLICT Over the past year growing tensions between radicalized  Buddhists and the Muslim minority have left more than 250,000 people displaced and more than 200 dead in Burma. Dr. Wakar Uddin, Chairman of the Burmese Rohingya Association of North America, David Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, and T. Kumar, International Advocacy Director of Amnesty International USA, discuss what’s behind the sectarian conflict in Burma, with guest host Sarah Zaman, International Broadcaster in VOA Urdu Service.