Myanmar’s junta has been on the back foot for quite some time now. The militias waging a civil war against the central government are gaining ground and start to plan the post-war order. Yet one ethnic minority remains marginalized.
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Hans-Bernd Zöllner, one of the leading researchers on Myanmar, warns that a lack of knowledge stands in the way of real progress in the Rohingya crisis. And he explains how to make sense of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s conflicting role.
Few conflicts have shaken the Islamic world as deeply as the one surrounding the Rohingya, Myanmar’s Muslim minority. U Kyaw Thien and his wife escaped to Thailand – but had to leave more than their belongings behind.