Nearly 400,000 Muslims have fled Myanmar in recent weeks. How could a small nation celebrated by the United States as a “good news” story of transition to democracy now be condemned by the United Nations as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”? Guest: Hannah Beech, the Southeast Asia bureau chief for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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