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Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis – Fertile Ground for Jihadis in Southeast Asia?

Posted: February 7th, 2017

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has largely disappeared from the news since its military junta was replaced by a relatively reformist government after 2015 elections, and the country opened to the outside following an Obama administration push.

Although no longer the pariah it was in past years, longstanding persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority continues to raise concerns for human rights activists and other outsiders. The United Nations, in a report last Friday, said widespread human rights violations against Rohingyas by Myanmar security forces in the country’s northern Rakhine state indicate the likelihood of crimes against humanity.

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