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What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?

Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are playing a key role.

By Isabel Marler and Macarena Aguilar
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Taung Paw Camp in Rakhine State, in 2012.

Taung Paw Camp in Rakhine State, in 2012. Credit: FCO/Flickr. (CC BY-ND 2.0). Some rights reserved.

In the hastily-built displacement camps of Rakhine state, in the western part of Myanmar, where some 129,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya people have been interned since 2012, there’s very little to look forward to. With no freedom to work outside the camps, the survival of this long-persecuted minority hinges on international aid deliveries and special permits to leave which are granted only for medical emergencies.

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