Inside Myanmar's Rakhine State
Burnt out mosques, segregated schools, and refugee camps: what now for the Rohingya?
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 麻豆社 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: 麻豆社 Indonesia's Rohmatin Bonasir holding a Rohingya child in Bangladesh refugee camp
Credit: 麻豆社
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Fifth Floor
Global stories from the 麻豆社鈥檚 40 Language Services, with Faranak Amidi