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The uphill battle to forge peace in Myanmar's Rakhine State

Verena Hölzl

“People have to start to listen to each other, or we will never have peace”

Kyaw Hsan is trying to bridge the deep rift between his own ethnic Rakhine community and the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State, where 700,000 Rohingya were driven out last year in a purge the UN says could amount to genocide.

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