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Under Siege in Their Villages, Rohingya Still In Burma Say They’re Trapped
Max Bearak – The Washington Post,
9 Oct 2017
2 Oct 2017 — Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto leader, recently claimed that an unprecedented exodus of half a million Rohingya Muslims from her country in just five weeks “has quieted down” and that people are “carrying on as normal.” But there is another way to assess the ground reality for Rohingya in Burma: calling them on their cellphones. Testimony gathered last week from more than a dozen such conversations suggests that Burma’s leaders are either misinformed about events in Rakhine or intentionally misrepresenting them.
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