SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- Earlier this
year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in western Myanmar.
The authorities charged three Muslim men. A week later, 10
Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next
was hidden from the outside world. Bloodshed pitted Buddhists
against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their
homes, which were burned down in what they said was a deliberate
attempt by the predominantly Buddhist government to drive them
out of the country. "They were shooting and we were also
fighting. The fields were filled with bodies and soaked with
blood," says Mohammed Islam, who fled with his family to
Bangladesh. There are 400,000 Rohingya languishing in
Bangladesh. For more than three decades, waves of refugees have
fled Myanmar. But the government of Bangladesh considers the
Rohingya to be illegal immigrants, as does the government of
Myanmar. They have no legal rights and nowhere to go. This is a
story of a people fleeing the land where they