Myanmar’s two-year old democratically elected government has drawn worldwide criticism because of the persecution of the Rohingya.
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By Gerard O’Connell | November 26, 2017
Pope Francis will be stepping carefully through a political minefield as he visits Myanmar from Nov. 27-30. This majority-Buddhist state with 52 million inhabitants is on an uphill road to full democracy because the military, which ruled for 60 years, still holds the balance of power.
Myanmar’s two-year old democratically elected government led by Nobel Peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, has drawn worldwide criticism in recent months because of the persecution of the Rohingya, a minority Muslim population, by the military. Approximately 620,000 Rohingya have left Myanmar’s Rakhine state to seek refuge in neighboring Bangladesh.
On the eve of the pope’s visit, Bangladesh’s foreign minister announced that his country had struck a deal with Myanmar for the return of hundreds of thousands of these refugees, though the details are not yet clear.
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