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           subjected to arbitrary arrests, extortion, forced labor, rape, discrimi-
           natory restriction in employment, eviction, arbitrary taxes and vio-
           lence. These unwanted people are not accepted as citizens of Burma,
           and therefore stripped of citizenship rights such as education, health-
           care services, the right to marry and the right to travel, and to top it
           all off the NGO organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the pri-
           mary supplier of medical care is now officially banned in Rakhine

           state, where mostly Rohingya people live. With the aid workers gone,
           now they have little to no health care and the situation is deteriorat-
           ing with each passing day as we hear news of malnutrition, starvation
           and disease rising in villages and camps in Rakhine.


                Danger of increasing racism and Buddhist radicalism in
                Myanmar


                     Ethnic conflicts in Myanmar have risen to an alarming level
                 with systematic killings and the worst suffering of its Muslim






                                                   The house of a colonialist British
                                                 merchant in Yangon, dating back to
                                                                  19th Century
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