Myanmar President Thein Sein toured the strife-torn western region where anti-Muslim mobs attacked and torched more than 70 homes, surrounded a mosque, and in an unbelievable crime, stabbed a 94-year old Muslim woman to death.

The latest row started when a Muslim cab driver said he was verbally assaulted by a shopkeeper.  Police detained and later released the cab driver, but the mobs had already formed.  It began with rock throwing at the man’s home and spiraled out of control.

While the west praises Thein Sein for moving Myanmar closer to full democracy after years of military rule, he has also come under intense criticism for failing to stop social violence as predominantly Buddhist groups violently persecute Muslim minorities.  Many of those Muslims have been forced to flee their homes and are essentially trapped in refugee camps that sometimes resemble prisons.