Roots of Myanmar Rohingya crisis lie in global economy

The Myanmar government’s willingness to allow firms to take land from communities has exacerbated, and perhaps encouraged, the ongoing ethno-nationalist conflict.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The ongoing Rohingya crisis in western Myanmar has revealed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be fallible to political and corporate agendas, writes Nisha Toomey.
The mass displacement of the Rohingya population in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State has escalated into one of the biggest human rights crises in recent history. Second only to people’s suffering is the tragedy that this conflict has wrought upon Myanmar’s international democracy movement, wh...

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