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Posted: 3/22/2013 8:23:27 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, a group of people try to destroy a building in Meikhtila, where Ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims continues, in Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March.22, 2013. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent.(AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 8:23:27 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, local residents walk on a road near a burning building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 8:23:27 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, smoke billows from a burning mosque following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 7:43:53 AM EST
Debris are left at the site of destroyed buildings as ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims continues, in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March. 22, 2013. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest here is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 7:43:53 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, armed Myanmar police oficers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, Myanmar fire fighters put out fires in a burning building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
Myanmar police officers provide security near burnt buildings in Meikhtila, where Ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims continues, in Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March. 22, 2013. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, Myanmar fire fighters put out fires in a burning building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
Debris scatter at the site of destroyed buildings following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims, in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 22, 2013. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent.(AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
Local residents ride a motorcycle as smoke billows from a burning building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims, in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March. 22, 2013. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest here is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
In this Thursday, March .21, 2013 photo, a Myanmar fire fighter put out fires of a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
Debris are left at the site of destroyed buildings as ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims continues, in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March. 22, 2013. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest here is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:58:32 AM EST
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, armed Myanmar police oficers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country's latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could spread. The government's struggle to contain the unrest in Meikhtila is proving another major challenge President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 3/21/2013 5:11:05 AM EST
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), gestures during a rally to celebrate the spring festival of Newroz in Istanbul March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Posted: 3/21/2013 5:11:05 AM EST
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), gestures during a rally to celebrate the spring festival of Newroz in Istanbul March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Posted: 3/20/2013 7:17:50 PM EST
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), gestures during a rally to celebrate the spring festival of Newroz in Istanbul March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Posted: 3/19/2013 10:03:33 AM EST
In this photo taken Monday, March 18, 2013, Polish undersecretary of state Jerzy Pomianowski speaks to The Associated Press about a new democracy initiative, the European Endowment for Democracy, in Warsaw, Poland. The endowment will start working this summer, with Pomianowski serving as its first executive director. Its aim is to get funds fast to democracy struggles in Eastern Europe, North African and the Middle East, avoiding some of the bureaucratic delays that are common with the established European instruments that help democracy and human rights struggles. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 10:03:33 AM EST
In this photo taken Monday, March 18, 2013, Polish undersecretary of state Jerzy Pomianowski speaks to The Associated Press about a new democracy initiative, the European Endowment for Democracy, in Warsaw, Poland. The endowment will start working this summer, with Pomianowski serving as its first executive director. Its aim is to get funds fast to democracy struggles in Eastern Europe, North African and the Middle East, avoiding some of the bureaucratic delays that are common with the established European instruments that help democracy and human rights struggles. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 10:03:33 AM EST
In this photo taken Monday, March 18, 2013, Polish undersecretary of state Jerzy Pomianowski speaks to The Associated Press about a new democracy initiative, the European Endowment for Democracy, in Warsaw, Poland. The endowment will start working this summer, with Pomianowski serving as its first executive director. Its aim is to get funds fast to democracy struggles in Eastern Europe, North African and the Middle East, avoiding some of the bureaucratic delays that are common with the established European instruments that help democracy and human rights struggles. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Posted: 3/18/2013 4:57:30 PM EST
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), gestures during a rally to celebrate the spring festival of Newroz in Istanbul March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
