BBC:
The BBC has obtained police video showing officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the Burmese town of Meiktila.This is proof that even Buddhism can't escape the logic that drives all other religions—that is the logic of self-preservation, Spinoza's conatus. That terminal point of that logic is an eruption of violence against another self-preserving logic.The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses. A man is seen on fire.
It was filmed last month, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila.
Meanwhile the EU is expected to decide whether to lift sanctions imposed on Burma, in response to recent reforms.
