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Mohammad MAZED and Tanbirul Miraj RIPON

Rohingya Refugees Detail Worsening Violence In Myanmar

Experts say that at least 2,000 Rohingya refugees have been forcibly recruited to fight for Myanmar's military (Credit: AFP)

Rohingya refugee Syed fled Myanmar for a second time last month, after he was forced to fight alongside the military that drove his family out of their homeland years earlier.

Syed, whose name has been changed to protect him from reprisals, is one of thousands of young men from the stateless and persecuted Muslim minority rounded up to wage a war not of their own making.

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