The World Food Programme said on Tuesday the recent violence had displaced 90,000 people, or three times more than the government's estimate. "The basic humanitarian needs of these people must be met immediately, as many still lack adequate food, water, shelter, and medical attention," Amnesty said, urging the government to allow local and international aid agencies "full and unhindered access" to all displaced people.  A court in Myanmar has sentenced two men to death for the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman whose killing last month helped set off communal violence in which more than 50 people died, state media reported Tuesday. The attacks helped set off almost a week of violence between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingyas, who are denied citizenship and ethnic recognition in Myanmar and instead are viewed as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
– Some 90,000 people who have fled ethnic violence in western Burma are in need of emergency food aid, the United Nations warns. The rape and murder of a Buddhist woman last month, for which two men have been sentenced to death, set off violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in which at least 50 people died and thousands of Rohingyas were forced to flee their homes, the AP reports. Some 800,000 Rohingyas live near Burma's border with Bangladesh and neither country recognizes them as citizens. But unlike in previous outbreaks of violence in Burma, the US government has praised the government's response. "This is something we would not have seen in the past. The government is trying to help everybody who needs it, whether that is Rakhine Buddhists or Muslims," an embassy official tells Reuters. He notes that the Burmese government has been quick to ask for help, unlike in the aftermath of 2008's Cyclone Nargis, when the refusal to allow in foreign aid was blamed for thousands of deaths. Aid workers, however, say thousands of people are still in dire conditions almost a week after the violence subsided.