The reporters have one full day in the city, where they will meet officials and victims of the arson attacks, beatings and other ethnic hate crimes.
In recent years, the violence against the Rohingya carried out by state officials and Buddhist extremists has included rape, arson, shootings, beatings and torture.
But in the rising violence there have been dozens of mob and arson attacks and beatings, especially against the Protestant denominations that established themselves after the fall of Soviet Union, according to the government, church officials and human rights campaigners.
The recently arrived professionals, academics and technologists, had brought to Hampton a self-conscious blessed assurance, unaware of the beatings, arson, and murder that thrived in the hills around their white-trim shutters.
Under the headline "5 in Bronx Youth Gangs Indicted in Merchant 'Protection' Racket," an article in The New York Times published on Oct. 19, 1973, began, "Scores of shopkeepers in the South Bronx have been terrorized by street gangs into paying 'protection' money to escape beatings, arson and robbery".
After the railroad was completed and white laborers in other industries began to fear for their jobs, anti-Chinese attacks increased, including beatings, arson and murder.
Then there is the rising problem of ethnic tension, with Hispanic migrant workers the targets of beatings and arson.
Since its inception in the 1970s, residents considered to be flouting the village's stringent rules have been victims of vandalism, beatings and arson, as well as expulsion.
Robert's and Eli's paths move together and apart, through enough plot for two or three novels: beatings, lynchings, arson, floods, narrow escapes, love affairs, robberies, rowdy couplings, greasy meals, hunting scenes, great friendships.
