Muslim killing in Myanmar.

When Myanmar's newly installed president and former soldier, Thein Sein, kick-started the country's political transition two years ago, he hoped to usher in a clean and steady advance towards some sort of orderly democracy. Now , however, things are starting to turn out rather differently. Authorities in Myanmar's Rakhine State have aided ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims last year that have sparked off anti-Muslim violence elsewhere in the country. As declared by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, security forces were complicit in the in the disarming of Rohingya Muslims and standing by as Rakhine Buddhist mobs killed men, women and children during June to October 2012.

The failure to investigate properly or punish state officials has emboldened those behind the campaigns against Muslims. People are being incited and instigated in a...