Myanmar's government says 50 people have been killed in two weeks of fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.<br /><br />While there has long been tension between the ethnic Buddhist Rakhines and the Muslim Rohingyas, regarded as <br />illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, the recent clashes began when a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered, allegedly by three Muslim men.<br /><br />With no near end in sight, more than 30,000 people have now fled their homes to escape the violence.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane reports.
