Burma?s Ethnic Persecution is State Policy

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"Burma has enjoyed a remarkable several years of economic and political opening, but it is now also suffering a far darker development—serious ethnic violence. Coordinated arson attacks and periodic massacres in the remote Rakhine State have flattened entire villages and left hundreds of Rohingya men, women and children dead since June 2012. More than 140,000 are relegated to miserable displacement camps and tens of thousands have fled by sea..."

Creator/author: 

Matthew Smith

Source/publisher: 

"The Wall Street Journal" via Fortify Rights

Date of Publication: 

2014-03-13

Date of entry: 

2014-05-26

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English

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