Who Are The Rohingya and Why Are They Fleeing? | NowThis World
The Rohingya people of Myanmar are some of the most persecuted people in the world, particularly by their own government. Learn more in this video.
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In August 2017, thousands of Rohingya militants staged a coordinated attack that killed 12 security officers in Myanmar’s border state of Rakhine. The attack sparked a bloody and brutal crackdown by the burmese military on the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Reports surfaced that members of the military were killing and raping the Rohingya, and even burning their villages to the ground. This wave of violence has sent more than 400,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border to Bangladesh, sparking what some are calling the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. One UN official has even called the violence against the minority group, “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” So who are the Rohingya and why are they being targeted in the first place? First and foremost the Rohingya are a stateless p...
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In August 2017, thousands of Rohingya militants staged a coordinated attack that killed 12 security officers in Myanmar’s border state of Rakhine. The attack sparked a bloody and brutal crackdown by the burmese military on the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Reports surfaced that members of the military were killing and raping the Rohingya, and even burning their villages to the ground. This wave of violence has sent more than 400,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border to Bangladesh, sparking what some are calling the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. One UN official has even called the violence against the minority group, “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” So who are the Rohingya and why are they being targeted in the first place? First and foremost the Rohingya are a stateless p...
