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Introduction To Some Of Burma’s Ethnic Minority Groups
A Closer Look at Burma’s Ethnic Minorities
By Hannah Beech / Bangkok
Friday, Jan. 30, 2009
Living under the thumb of a brutal junta, the average Burmese hardly leads an easy life. But the plight of the country’s ethnic minorities, many of whom once waged long and bloody insurgencies against the military regime, is even worse. As a [...]
Ryan | Aug 06, 2009 | Comments 0
Visiting the Rohingya, Burma’s Hidden Population
‘Sorry,’ I was told, ‘but there are no Rohingya here.’ I was mystified. From everything that I had heard about this persecuted Muslim minority, the Rohingya come from western Burma’s isolated Arakan State. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, who speak a dialect similar to that of Bengalis from neighboring Bangladesh, have fled the brutality of [...]
Ryan | Jun 20, 2009 | Comments 0
