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'Where Would I Go?' Thousands Of Rohingya Flee Myanmar After A Bloody Week

Since a militant attack last week, the military has cracked down on the mostly Muslim minority, whom Myanmar doesn't consider citizens. More than 27,000 people have fled for Bangladesh.
Myanmarese soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in rural Rakhine state on Wednesday. Plumes of smoke reportedly billowed from several villages in the worst-hit section of the state as troops clashed with Rohingya militants this week.

When state security forces entered the western Myanmar village of Chut Pyin in the midafternoon Sunday, they weren't alone. According to the survivors who spoke with Fortify Rights, an international aid group, armed residents of a nearby village mingled with the troops — but they both had a common target.

Together, Fortify Rights says, the two groups wasted no time setting to work against the village's Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in the country, paying no attention to whether their victims were men, women or

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