Dozens of people have been killed and thousands of homes burned
to the ground in Myanmar's volatile Rakhine state in recent
days, amid an upsurge in violence between Buddhists and Rohingya
Muslims that prompted the government to declare a state of
emergency. CNN looks at the background to the ongoing communal
violence in the Southeast Asian country. What's behind the
unrest? Overnight curfews in several towns and villages across
the region have been in place since May, when the arrest of
three Muslim men suspected of raping and killing a Buddhist
woman sparked deadly clashes between the Rohingya and Rakhine
Buddhists. Two of the men have since been sentenced to death,
while the third hanged himself while in detention, the
government-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported on its
website. The following month, 10 Muslims were killed when
several hundred people attacked a bus in the state's Taungup
district, reportedly believing some of the passengers were
involved in the murder. The violence then spread acr