The ‘Night Government’ expands its violent reach in Rohingya camps

The refugees say members of the groups beat, kill, kidnap, rape and extort them for money they don’t have. — AP

THEY could not worship freely. Authorities denied their very existence and razed evidence of their historical communities. Then came a campaign of ethnic cleansing that forced them to flee to a foreign country where they crowded into bamboo-and-tarp shelters. There they have waited years for a better life.

Instead, a new threat is stalking the roughly one million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who have resettled in refugee camps in Bangladesh: a surge in deadly violence from some of their own people.