Rohingya refugees walk on a muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. Photo: Reuters
Rohingya Muslims are once more fleeing in droves into Bangladesh, trying to escape the latest surge in violence in Rakhine state between a shadowy militant group and Myanmar’s military.
It is the newest chapter in the grim recent history of the Rohingya, a people of about one million reviled in Myanmar as illegal immigrants and denied citizenship. The photos emerging from the border between the two countries show these people’s desperate situation.
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