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Rohingya wiped off the map

By Associated Press

Sept. 18, 2017

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In this Sept. 6, 2017, file photo, a Myanmar police officer stands watch as journalists arrive in the village of Shwe Zar, a suburb of Maungdaw township, in the northern part of Myanmar's Rakhine state. In retaliation for a series of attacks by Rohingya militants last month, security forces and allied mobs have burned down thousands of homes in Northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 million Rohingya lived.
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In this Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, smoke and flames in Myanmar are visible from the Bangladeshi side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area.
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In this Sept. 7, 2017 file photo, flames engulf a house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar.
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In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar.
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In this Sept. 14, 2017 file photo, a Rohingya man carries two children to shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, after they arrived on a boat from Myanmar. After a series of attacks by Muslim militants in August, security forces and allied mobs retaliated by burning down thousands of homes in the enclaves of the predominantly Buddhist nation where the Rohingya live.
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In this Sept. 8, 2017 photo, a Rohingya man holds the body of a two-day-old baby before his burial in the cemetery of Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, they are, quite literally, being wiped off the map.
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In this Sept. 16, 2017 photo, Abdul Kareem, a Rohingya Muslim man, carries his mother, Alima Khatoon, to a refugee camp after crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, at Teknaf, Bangladesh. After a series of attacks by Muslim militants in August, security forces and allied mobs retaliated by burning down thousands of homes in the enclaves of the predominantly Buddhist nation where the Rohingya live.
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In this Sept. 17, 2017 photo, Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait for their turn to collect sanitary products distributed by aid agencies near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. After a series of attacks by Muslim militants in August, security forces and allied mobs retaliated by burning down thousands of homes in the enclaves of the predominantly Buddhist nation where the Rohingya live. That has sent some 417,000 people fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh, according to U.N. estimates. There they have joined tens of thousands of others who have fled over the past year.
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A girl holds a sign calling for the removal of the honorary Canadian citizenship of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a rally calling on the Canadian government to prevent the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sunday.
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Burmese residents living in Japan, who support Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stage a rally against ethnic Rohingya, in front of United Nations University in Tokyo on Sept. 13. Leader Suu Kyi has canceled plans to attend the U.N. General Assembly, with her country drawing international criticism for violence that has driven at least 370,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims from the country in less than three weeks.
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Members of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a political movement for Arab Muslims inside Israel, chants slogans during a demonstration to condemn Myanmar's treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, in front of the embassy of Myanmar, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sept. 11. Protest leader Ibrahim Sarsour said the crowd came to condemn what he called "atrocities" committed by the Myanmar government.
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