For the First Time Since the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims began. The burmese army has been accused of ethnic cleansing. Nearly 500,000 rohingyas have fled to bangladesh to escape the brutal crackdown, which the army says began after attacks by militants. The bbcsjonathan head has tracked down a man who claims to be one of those rohingya fighters. Here is his special report. This is where desperate rohingyas started fighting back. This town in Rakhine State is now a smoking ruin, its Muslim Population gone. For years, rohingyas have endured discrimination, abuses, and confinement to squalid camps. But, unlike other minorities in myanmar, they did not rebel against the government. That has now changed. A Burmese Police officer showed me me where hundreds of men, carrying only machetes and petrol bombs, stormed towards the police station. They were easily driven off, he said, and many of them killed. Shortly afterwards, the self styled leader of the group, calling itself the Arakan Roh
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