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The Rohingya Crisis Patrick Brown

Source:   A survivor of the massacre at Tula Toli village (also known as Min Gyi) in Myanmar. Rajuma Begum, 20, witnessed her parents, two sisters and brother killed by the Myanmar Military. She saw her three-month old baby killed, then thrown onto a fire by the Myanmar soldiers. She was then raped, stabbed, and left for dead.  

Noor Haba,11, carries family belongings to the beach after the boat she travelled in landed at Shamlapur Beach, Bangladesh. She set sail with her family and a group of 25 other Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State, arriving at the beach after five hours in the open waters of the Bay of Bengal, some with nothing more than their shirt on their backs. Many have witnessed violence and lost family members.

Some of the 3,000 Rohingya refugee children wait

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