Today is World Refugee Day

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Today, let’s remember the Rohingya, the Muslim minority, considered unlawful people born in Myanmar. One million Rohingya lived there until the expulsion began. Myanmar has never recognized them as citizens, they were stateless. For years, Buddhist monks have been campaigning against Muslims, many citizens have prejudices against them. In August, radical Rohingya attacked several police stations and killed twelve security forces, and since then the hatred has exploded. Soldiers and civilian mobs stormed Rohingya settlements in Rakhine province near the border with Bangladesh and fire house by house, village by village. They want to erase everything.

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