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Rohingya refugees in Chicago face stress, anxiety after escaping horrors in Myanmar

Published by Rohingya Cultural Center on March 8, 2020March 8, 2020

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Hasan Korimullah was 8, maybe 9, when he saw his mother hacked to death. The pair had been on a shopping trip near their home in Myanmar when two men jumped out of the bushes with machetes, he said.

Hasan took off running, eventually escaping, while his mother became another casualty of the ongoing violence in Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims like the boy’s family.

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