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The Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi's whitewash: Eyewitness

'Nobody is allowed to have any lights on after sunset in this region, or be outside at all'

Rohingya Muslims, Rohingya
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Ellen Wiles | The Conversation

It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at nursery and was scrolling through Twitter, when I spotted a video of another mother’s two children.

The youngest was a one-year-old boy, the same age as my own youngest; the other, his nine-year-old sister, had been carrying him for miles. She was weeping, the tears from her terrified eyes indistinguishable from the rain pouring off her short black hair and drenched clothes. A Rohingya child, she had fled from the one of the many scenes of horror inflicted by the Myanmar military