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Soldiers Burst: Soldiers and Rohingya Villages

soldiers burst: Without warning, seven soldiers burst into the house and charged into their bedroom, according to The Chronicle Herald. The woman, a Rohingya Muslim who agreed to be identified by her first initial, F, knew enough to be terrified. It was June, and the newlyweds were asleep in their home, surrounded by the fields of wheat they farmed in western Myanmar. She knew the military had been attacking Rohingya villages, as part of what the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing in the mostly Buddhist nation. This time, F says, the soldiers had come for her. She heard just days before that soldiers had killed her parents, and that her brother was missing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.