Five years ago today, soldiers carrying rifles and machetes began driving ethnic Rohingya from their homes in Myanmar in a wave of violence. Some called it a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” The World’s Carol Hills talks with Shayna Bauchner, a researcher in the Asia division at Human Rights Watch who has focused on the plight of the Rohingya.
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