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The West’s role in fixing the Rohingya crisis

The remains of burnt villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, on Oct. 10; hundreds have been razed since the conflict began

There is something rotten in Myanmar. About 700,000 Rohingya, a Muslimminority, have fled the nation’s coastal state of Rakhine to Bangladesh, in order to escape the military. At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in one month alone, estimates Doctors Without Borders. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has

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