Recommendations Regarding the Rohingya
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In August 2017, the Burma Army launched a major “cleansing operation” against the Rohingya people in Arakan State in western Burma. This was a large-scale escalation of a similar but smaller operation that had taken place 10 months before and had resulted in numerous accusations of human rights violations and abuses by the Burma Army; it also represented the first “official” involvement of the military in the ongoing violence between the local Rakhine population and the Rohingya people. Since August 25th, 2017, the current operation has sent more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh; five months later, they continue to come, bringing little more than reports of brutality and devastation wreaked by Burma Army soldiers, and a determination to not go back until real change has happened in their homeland.
Yet, their current situation in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh is also not sustainable ...
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