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The village of Du Chee Yar
Tan is only one of the villages
destroyed in Rakhine .

As hard as it is to believe, these painful incidents are happening

as you read these words, or as you watch your favorite TV show. Most
recently, Doctors Without Borders were banned from working in the
country as they were accused of favoring the Rohingya; sadly, DwB
were the only medical treatment the Rohingya Muslims could obtain.

Again, recently Du Chee Yar Tan village was the scene of fresh
attacks by Myanmar security officials and radical Buddhists. The vil-
lage was closed off, but five Muslim men snuck into the area to find
the severed heads of at least 10 Rohingya in a water tank and some of
those were children.

Extremist Buddhist groups on the other hand continue to spread
hatred of Muslims, by traveling the countryside with motorbikes.

These are actual human beings and just because they are living in
a remote part of the world, or simply because they are from a different
religion, does not change the fact that these are innocent civilians. They
are not statistics; they are someone's mother, father, husband, child,

or wife. Yet, they face isolation and are left to deal with their pain alone.

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