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   DU CHEE YAR TAN, Myanmar — Under the pale moon of Jan. 13, Zaw   
   Patha watched from her bamboo house as Mohmach, 15, her eldest   
   child, was dragged from the kiosk where he slept as guardian of   
   the family business.   
      
   The men who abducted the boy struck him with the butt of a rifle   
   until he fell to the dirt path, she said in an interview,   
   gesturing with a sweep of her slender arms. Terrified, she fled   
   into the rice fields. She assumes he is dead.   
      
   Three doors away, Zoya, dressed in a black abaya, showed the   
   latch on her front door that she said armed men had broken as   
   they stormed in and began beating her 14-year-old son, Mohamed.   
   She has not seen him since.   
      
   The villagers’ accounts back up a United Nations investigation,   
   which concluded that the attack on Du Chee Yar Tan that night   
   resulted in the deaths of at least 40 men, women and children,   
   one of the worst instances of violence against the country’s   
   long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims. They were killed, the United   
   Nations says, by local security forces and civilians of the   
   rival Rakhine ethnic group, many of them adherents of an extreme   
   Buddhist ideology who were angered by the kidnapping of a   
   Rakhine policeman by some Rohingya men.   
      
   On Friday, the crackdown on the ethnic minority continued, when   
   the government ordered Doctors Without Borders, the Rohingya’s   
   main health care provider, to stop providing its services to   
   them. One of the group’s offenses, according to a government   
   official, was the hiring of too many Rohingya.   
      
   Since 2012, many Rohingya, a long-reviled group in Buddhist-   
   majority Myanmar, have been herded into miserable camps they are   
   not allowed to leave, even for work. Those still allowed to live   
   in villages like Du Chee Yar Tan are at the mercy of the local   
   authorities, many of whom are inspired by an extremist Buddhist   
   group whose monks have used the nation’s new freedoms to travel   
   the countryside on motorbikes preaching hatred of Muslims.   
      
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   The latest carnage is a major embarrassment for the government,   
   which has just assumed an important position as the annual chair   
   of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.   
      
   In a sign of the sensitivity, a visit to the village to assess   
   the conflicting reports about the night of Jan. 13 was cut short   
   when local police officers briefly detained two New York Times   
   reporters and a photographer.   
      
   In response to a major 2012 spasm of violence in Sittwe that   
   included the firebombing of homes and left an estimated 300   
   dead, most of them Muslims, President Thein Sein said most   
   Rohingya were in Myanmar illegally, despite their having lived   
   there, in some cases, for generations. His solution: The United   
   Nations should help deport them.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/world/asia/rise-in-bigotry-   
   fuels-massacre-inside-myanmar.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0   
      
       
      
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