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The continued mass escape of the Rohingya Muslims across the sea from Myanmar

12 November 2017
Arakan News AgencyDozens of Rohingya Muslims crossed the border, fleeing the violence in Myanmar, as the Muslim minority in Myanmar are being killed by the Myanmar army.
Myanmar’s human rights organization, the Myanmar Independent Human Rights Network, said systematic persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority was on the rise across the country, not only in the northwest state of Arakan.
The organization said in a report that the persecution is supported by the government, the country’s Buddhist monks and nationalists civic groups as many Muslims from all ethnicities were denied national identity cards, also access to places of prayer for Muslims in some places was denied.

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