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Since 2012, the Rohingya Muslims living in various parts of
Myanmar in Southeastern Asia has been grabbing international head-
lines, with reports of people being hunted down and killed, villages
being put to the torch, and refugees being stranded at sea after neigh-
boring countries refused to let them in.

So what's going on in Myanmar?

The Rohingya Muslims are a minority in Myanmar that once ruled
the region with a kingdom that lasted for 350 years. Later, the tide
turned and the Rohingya became a minority in their own homeland.
Today, they are known as the most persecuted people in the world,
stateless and seemingly unwanted by anyone.

If you are a Rohingya you have two choices:

1) You can stay at home. But that means;

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