Almost no outsiders have visited the internally displaced persons camps in Burma where over 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live. Cresa Pugh, a PhD student in sociology, was able to visit last year. She saw a community in turmoil – but many Burmese people deny that the Rohingya are being persecuted. Cresa asks why marginalized people like the Rohingya are often blamed for their own suffering.
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The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert 
Executive Producer: Ann Hall 
Sound Designer: Ian Coss 
Logo Designer: Emily Wilson

Displacement Episode 2: The Shipwreck

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