Before 20 17, meanmar was home to about one point three million rehinges. Now their population is closer to 600 thousand. Their situation is grim, both for those who fled meonmar and those who remain in the country. And it shows no prospect of getting better.
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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