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Myanmar: Burma and San

myanmar: After several decades of brutal military dictatorship, there were democratic elections in 2015, according to Huffington Post Canada. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won the vast majority of seats in parliament. Very few would mention Burma, now officially known as Myanmar, as a serious concern despite there being a large scale ethnic cleansing underway with implicit acquiescence, if not explicit sanction of the government; and that is because the apparent genocide underway there is not receiving the attention it deserves. But the 1.3 million Muslim minority Rohingyas in a country of 50 million Buddhists could be forgiven for believing that Myanmar's murderous military junta was still in charge, because there has been no let up in the violent persecution of the Rohingya. Under Suu Kyi's rule, with government usually looking the other way, the Rohingya continue to be massacred by the majority Buddhists, often led by Buddhist Monks. They were mercilessly butchered during the military rule. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.