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How Rohingya crisis puts India between a rock and a hard place

Violence against the Rohingya community is happening under a government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is held to a much higher standard when it comes to upholding human rights.

The Rohingyas are an ethnic Bengali speaking minority who have been living in Myanmar's state of Rakhine for several generations although there may be some recent immigrants from across the border in Bangladesh. Myanmar does not acknowledge them as bonafide citizens. The latest bout of violence against this minority is by no means new.

Over the past several years there have been eruptions of ethnic violence against this community, in which the Myanmar Army, the local Burman population and particularly the militant Buddhist

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