‘Who will take us?’: Myanmar’s fleeing Rohingya Muslims

(Al Jazeera) – Rohingya as old as 105 are pouring into Bangladesh in the hope of finding peace and some semblance of a future, as the Myanmar army and allied mobs lay waste to their homes and villages in the western region of Rakhine. In lines stretching deep into the horizon, tens of thousands of Rohingya – 80 percent of whom are women and children – have crossed into southeast Bangladesh after making the long and arduous trek from the impoverished region of Rakhine state.

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