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Villages are being burnt constantly and they've continued to be burnt up to now.

We happened to come across a village that had just been set on fire.

We found, in fact, there were Rakhine Buddhist tufts, young men with

machetes, who had actually set it on fire in front of the police, clearly with official

connivans.

We are concerned to hear that numbers of Muslims are fleeing across the border to Bangladesh.

We want to find out why this exodus is happening. We would like to talk to those who have fled as well as to those who have stayed.

Myanmar's de facto leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi,

saying she doesn't know why ethnic Rohingya Muslims are fleeing Burma's Rakhine province and the country.

Yet the UN says that what's going on seems to be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.

So who are the Rohingya? Why the panicked exodus? And there's another big

problem. Myanmar has put itself on the global map. It's become the cause celebrra of the modern day

for much of the Muslim world, just as Kosovo was for a previous generation. And I think that greatly increases the risks.

What does it mean for Myanmar, the region, and indeed for us?

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