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Two years after Myanmar began a violent campaign to expel its Muslim minority, one man’s story illuminates an unexpectedly long history of oppression.
By Matthew Wells
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Two years after Myanmar began a violent campaign to expel its Muslim minority, one man’s story illuminates an unexpectedly long history of oppression.