One Year After Fleeing, Rohingya Refugees Say Myanmar Still Unsafe

One year ago, a great exodus began from Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. Within a few months, 700,000 Rohingya Muslims had fled into neighboring Bangladesh. They gave accounts of rape, murder and villages burned to the ground, all at the hands of Myanmar's security forces. VOA U.N. Correspondent Margaret Besheer reports that one year later, it is still not safe for them to return home.

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