… Read the restThey stumble down muddy ravines and flooded creeks through miles of hills and jungle in Bangladesh, and thousands more come each day, in a line stretching to the monsoon-darkened horizon.
Some are gaunt and spent, already starving and carrying listless and dehydrated babies, with many miles to go before they reach any refugee camp.
They are tens of thousands of Rohingya, who arrive bearing accounts of massacre at the hands of the Myanmar security forces and allied mobs that started on Aug. 25, after Rohingya militants staged attacks against government forces.
The retaliation that followed was carried out in methodical assaults on villages, with helicopters raining down fire on civilians and front-line troops cutting off
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Another genocide
Sep 2nd, 2017 1:22 pm | By Ophelia BensonAbroad doesn’t want them
May 16th, 2015 8:48 am | By Ophelia BensonWhat’s going on with the Rohingyas? Why are some thousands of them stranded in boats in the Andaman sea? What’s the deal?
The Rohingyas – a distinct Muslim ethnic group who are effectively stateless – have been fleeing Myanmar for decades. But a combination of factors means that they are now stranded in rickety boats in the Andaman sea, causing international alarm.
There are believed to be several thousand Myanmar migrants in boats off the coasts of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia with dwindling supplies of food and water, and not wanted by any of these countries.
Wait. Back up a step. What does that even mean? What does “a distinct Muslim ethnic group” mean? … Read the rest
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