If Myanmar’s leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi fails to act on the things that lie within her power, then she fails on her own terms.
From: Al Jazeera World
The Rohingya: Silent Abuse
Denied citizenship, forced from their homes, and subjected to cruelty; we investigate the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya.
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Can the Muslim and Buddhist communities of Rakhine State come to an understanding under Aung San Suu Kyi’s rule?
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‘I grabbed my children and ran towards the forest, and waited there with several hundred people.’
The Muslim minority is the target of a national hate campaign with politicians failing to address human rights abuses.
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