Freedom for Rohingyas: Wai Wai Nu’s dream

Despite suffering persecution and imprisonment, a young Rohingya woman chases dream of peace and justice in Myanmar.

Wai Wai Nu is a diminutive 27-year-old with pro-democracy activism in her genes and a quarter of her young life spent behind bars. The former political prisoner is now working to end the persecution faced by her people, the stateless Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar.

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