Thu, Feb 08, 2018 | Updated 04.30PM IST

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  • Feb 08, 2018, 13:39 IST

Rohingya refugees say hunger being used as a weapon against them

Feb 08, 2018, 13:39 IST

Abdul Goni says the Myanmar government was starving his family one stage at a time. First, soldiers stopped the Rohingya Muslim from walking three hours to the forest for the firewood he sold to feed his family. Then Buddhist neighbours and seven soldiers took his only cow, which he rented out to fertilize rice fields. Next, he says, they killed his uncle and strung him up on a wire for trying to stop the theft of his buffalos.