Rohingya wary as Myanmar's anti-junta resistance reaches out

In this photo taken on June 5, 2021, young members of the internally displaced Rohingya Muslim community smile at a grocery stall in the Thet Kay Pyin camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state. A shadow government is breaking taboos in Buddhist-majority Myanmar by welcoming Rohingya into its anti-junta coalition, but many in the long-persecuted Muslim minority are wary after living through decades of discrimination and deadly violence. - AFP

SITTWE (Myanmar), July 12 (AFP): A shadow government is breaking taboos in Buddhist-majority Myanmar by welcoming Rohingya into its anti-junta coalition, but many in the long-persecuted Muslim minority are wary after living through decades of discrimination and deadly violence.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the government of Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted in a February coup, sparking huge pro-democracy protests and a bloody military crackdown.