Earlier this year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in Western Myanmar. The authorities charged three Muslim men. A week later, ten Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next was hidden from the outside world. Bloodshed pitted Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their homes which were burned down in what they said was a deliberate attempt by the predominantly Buddhist government to drive them out of the country. This is a story of a people fleeing the land where they were born - of a people deprived of citizenship in their homeland. It is the story of the Rohingya of western Myanmar – whose very existence as a people is denied.
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