As West focuses on Syria, Rohingya crisis flares again, Jan. 2.
Rohingyas seep into our news occasionally as they did in 2012 when Rakhine Buddhists went into violent rampages, burning villages and setting people ablaze under the watchful eye of the Burmese police. They were hunted down like animals, forced into deplorable camps, trapped between the army and the sea where thousands have no other escape but “leaky boats” and the Andaman Sea.
While the world is consumed in the Syrian refugee crisis, another humanitarian disaster is taking place in Myanmar where Buddhist racism is at the root of the ethnic cleansing forcing hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas to flee for their lives. (Courtesy of Toronto Star)
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