Hunger strikers ill

Chittagong - Scores of Burmese Muslim refugees have fallen ill after activists enforced a mass hunger strike in their camps in…

Chittagong - Scores of Burmese Muslim refugees have fallen ill after activists enforced a mass hunger strike in their camps in Bangladesh. The fast began on July 20th following alleged attempts to send them home to Burma forcibly. - (Reuter)

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