The realization is slowly dawning on the international community that a shocking crime against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar.

Over 700,000 Rohingya have been forcibly expelled from their ancestral lands in that country by a volatile mix of military aggression and religious persecution, with the country’s government largely turning a blind eye or worse.

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