For the week 2, I am going to focus on the Muslims in Myanmar. There are about 800 thousand Muslims in Myanmar, but the Myanmar government regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Muslims in Myanmar can not get citizenship and jobs. On Feb 1st 2013, because of the war ,130 Rohingya Muslims escaped from Myanmar by ship, but they got trapped on the sea for 25 days and 97 of them died of hunger. The picture above are the survivors in that ship. One survivor said that they paid 465 dollar per person to get on board. Although they know it is a dangerous tour, but they need jobs and a place to survive. The UN Refugee Agency also concerns the increasing death of Rohingya Muslims. They suggest Myanmar government should protect Rohingya Muslims' basic human rights in action. Just like what I said in week 1, although Muslims' religion may be different from the primary religion in many countries, they just seek a good and peaceful life like other average people, and most of them should not be treated like heresy.
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