Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh recount bitter ordeal in Myanmar
‘A new wave of violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has prompted members of the minority community residing in neighboring Bangladesh to speak out about their ordeal at the hands of Myanmarese Buddhists and forces.
The Associated Press on Monday published interviews with Rohingyas, who have escaped to Bangladesh from Myanmar, with some of them describing cases of rape and murder back in their home country.
“They drove us out of our houses, men and women in separate lines, ordering us to keep our hands folded on the back of our heads,” said 20-year-old Mohsena Begum, recalling what had happened to the little village of Caira Fara, where hundreds of members of Myanmar’s minority community of Rohingya had been living until the government began a new wave of crackdown against the Muslims in October.’
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