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The burmese army has been accused of ethnically cleansing nearly half a million rohingyas have fled to bangladesh to escape the brutal crackdown, which the army says began with 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. Thats 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 were killed. Shortly afterwards, the self styled leader of the group, calling itself the Arakan Rohingya salvation army, published a video. Rohingyas, he said, had now no choice but to take up arms. Over in bangladesh, i went to see one of the thousands who had answered his call. We met discreetly, in a quiet corner. He described how his commander his amia, he called him had come four years ago, and took me to t

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