February 3, 2017

Inside the Rohingya Resistance: The rebels who provoked Myanmar's crackdown

Walking barefoot, armed with knives, sticks and a few stolen guns, dozens of young men march through the muddy fields of Myanmar's Rakhine State.

"We will not rest, these are our fighters, come and join us," one says on the video uploaded to YouTube.

Together, they represent the first armed insurgency to emerge from the Muslim minority Rohingya in decades.

They call themselves Harakat al-Yaqeen, or "Faith Movement," and they have claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Myanmar border posts in October, which killed nine police officers. (Courtesy of edition.cnn.com)

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