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Hi and thanks for downloading Witness, the History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Today we're looking at Myanmar where hundreds of thousands of

Rohingya Muslims left their homes in 2017 fleeing persecution. I'm Lucy Burns and

I've been exploring the roots of the Rohingya crisis and looking at a change in the Burmese citizenship laws in 1982

which left them essentially stateless. It is now the world's fastest growing humanitarian crisis.

We've seen village after village that's completely deserted,

abandoned boats, abandoned livestock.

They set fire to our houses and started shooting.

That's when we fled.

On the way, we saw many dead people.

Their heads and limbs chopped off.

Murders of children and adults,

indiscriminate shooting of fleeing civilians,

widespread rapes of women and girls.

We are hugely concerned about the humanitarian situation.

When I was young, there we are not any racial or religious conflict, discriminations or

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