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The case for the Rohingyas

Book review of 'The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide'

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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee
The Rohingyas
Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide
Azeem Ibrahim
Speaking Tiger
141 pages; Rs 454

The contours of the Rohingya issue have become clearly black and white. Understandably so. A population of 700,000 does not cross into another country, no matter how easy it is, for a picnic, unless they are sure they face grave dangers back home. 

Also, since the total population of the Rakhine state in Myanmar is just about three million, that means of good proportion of them has upped and fled. A migration of this scale spread over what some claim as less than a year to a