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Inside Myanmar's Rakhine State
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:10:11
Publish Date: 2017-07-21 08:06:00
Description: This week a Thai court convicted 60 people for human trafficking, with victims including Rohingya people. Rohingya are a muslim minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, but the Burmese government doesn't recognise them as citizens, and five years ago large numbers began to flee their homes after becoming victims of widespread violence and abuse. Rohmatin Bonasir of BBC Indonesian recently went to Rakhine State, where many of the Rohingya live, to visit an Indonesian funded school there, as well as a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Image: BBC Indonesia's Rohmatin Bonasir holding a Rohingya child in Bangladesh refugee camp Credit: BBC
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