A Pandora Box Census
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The soon-to-be-conducted census in Myanmar holds the promise of a Muslim identity for the Rohingyas. But at the same time, it threatens their very existence.
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Eindarit lay in his hut, his body covered in wounds with bandages. The 36-year-old had lost nearly all his teeth. He suffered the injuries when he tried to prevent Rohingya people near Sittwe, in Myanmar's Rakhine province, from fleeing the land of their birth.
Endarit, an ethnic Rohingya himself, had only asked his neighbors to delay their departure until after the census, to have been carried out from the end of March to April 10. "He was beaten
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