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Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims flee sectarian violence

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Thousands of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims seek shelter in camps fleeing violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims.

Fresh sectarian clashes in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine killed three people and left more than 400 houses, a monastery and a mosque burned to the ground,

Rakhine is home to the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority who say they have been persecuted by the Myanmar military during its decades of authoritarian rule.

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