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The Rohingya, a Muslim group indigenous to Rakhine state, have been described as "one of the world's most persecuted minorities". Targeted by the country's Buddhist community, many were killed or forced to flee their homes.
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Sun, surf and sand is the Bali many people know. But the Indonesian holiday island is no tropical paradise for inmates of the notorious Kerobokan prison.
Mongolia's horse races are long, fast and furious. And their riders are incredibly young. 5-year-old Babu is excited to join the ranks of 30,000 other child jockeys who take part in races across th...
In November 2013, Elena Zakusilo, a Ukrainian Jewish woman, appeared on the Ukrainian TV show "Lie Detector", revealing that she worked for the Israeli army and contin...
In the second part of this two-part special, 101 East investigates the wounds of partition 70 years on. In 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British imperial rulers into two nation s...
The Turkmen are an ethnic minority in Syria whose ancestors were Turkic peoples who fanned out across Central and East Asia in the 11th century. The Ottomans encouraged them to migrate south, so wh...
The Rohingya are often said to be the world's most persecuted minority. They are an ethnic Muslim group in the majority Buddhist country and make up around one million of Myanmar's total 50 million...
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has a population of around 51 million people. The Burman ethnic group constitutes around two-thirds of this figure and controls the mil...
"Before I die, I want to go back to where I was born." Krishan Kumar Khanna grew up just outside Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. After a childhood he remembers fondly, his life changed dram...
The story of Bisan Daher, an eight year-old girl rescued from the rubble of her home in Shujayea neighbourhood in 2014 when an Israeli bomb killed most of her family.