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Rohingya Muslims: Buddhist Nation and Age Chatter

rohingya muslims: A tiny girl with big brown eyes, Rosmaida is 4 but barely the size of a 1-year-old, according to The Chronicle Herald. She wobbles unsteadily when she walks. Frail and severely malnourished, she looks a lot like every other underfed child here until you realize she's not really like any of them at all. Bones protrude through the flimsy skin of her chest. Half a decade after a brutal wave of anti-Muslim violence exploded in this predominantly Buddhist nation, forcing more than 120,000 Rohingya Muslims into a series of camps in western Myanmar, this is what the government's policy of persecution, segregation and neglect looks like up close. And while other kids her age chatter incessantly, Rosmaida is listless, only able to speak a handful of first words Papa. ''Mama. ''Rice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.