Rohingya Crisis: Five Years After the Great Exodus – Politics
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“The Rohingya have no friends. Nowhere”
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Thousands of young people with no prospects for the future: a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.
(Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)
Five years ago, 700,000 Rohingya fled their country to escape genocide by the junta in Myanmar. But a lost generation is growing up in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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Arne PerrasMunich
In all the years that the Canadian law professor John Packer has been dealing with the plight and persecution of the Muslim minority in western Myanmar, he has observed one thing time and again: “The Rohingya have no friends. Nowhere.”
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