Myanmar: The Regional Risk from Muslim-Buddhist Violence

Violence between Myanmar's Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas is creating a regional security dilemma. Intercommunal clashes among these populations have been occurring in expatriate communities in neighboring countries and could expand as more people flee Myanmar. The expanding emigration of Rohingyas seeking refuge from the violence and growing empathy toward Rohingyas in the Muslim world could make Myanmar a target for Islamist violence.