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Rohingyas Were Shot, Hacked With Machetes, and Then They Made for the Border

Rohingyas Were Shot, Hacked With Machetes, and Then They Made for the Border

Update: 2018-06-01
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Nearly 700,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims fled violence in Myanmar for Bangladesh last fall. The influx created the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian disaster. Pavlos Kolovos, the head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in Bangladesh, was on the ground as they arrived. He describes what he saw on our podcast this week.


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