Genocide Is Place Speech

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Hello fellow classmates and professor,

For this discussion post I read “A genocide is taking place. Luckily we Americans have other things to worry about. Written by Christian Caryl and published by The Washington Post newspaper. You can read this article at the below link. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/10/23/a-genocide-is-taking-place-luckily-we-americans-have-other-things-to-worry-about/?utm_term=.70c846f6a9ff#comments According to the author there is genocide occurring in Burma also known as Myanmar against the Rohingya people. There are 600,000 people that have been forced out of their homes by soldiers that mocked them, beat them, and torch their homes. They are being forced to move to other nearby countries

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