The Burmese army does not believe that the rahenja are burmese citizens. It regards them as illegal imigrants from bangladesh. This view was enshrined in law several decades ago, making rahenges the world's largest community of stateless people. But it wasn't until about a decade ago that the government began to herd rehenges into camps. These living conditions are by design squalid, according to human rights watch.
Five years after a brutal campaign that drove nearly 750,000 out of Myanmar and into Bangladesh, conditions for the Muslim minority remain appalling on both sides of the border. Central Asian countries are laying plans for railways that would fill their coffers, distance Russia and empower China. And the economics lessons in London’s queue to see Queen Elizabeth II.
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