By now the plight of the Rohingya Muslims is all too familiar. Pushed out of Myanmar (Burma) by the Burmese army which burned down their villages, killed men, and raped women, the Rohingya have settled into unruly camps in Bangladesh. But the ordeal for the Rohingya is not over. They suffer from beatings, rape, and sexual slavery... at the hands of their fellow Rohingya. All too often, a Rohingya woman is fated to be passed, like chattel, from man to man -- father to husband, soldier to sex trafficker -- even in the supposed safety of the refugee camp. Domestic abuse is rife among the Rohingya, say experts working in the camps -- a product of both conservative customs and a society scarred by decades of state-sponsored violence and more recent displacement. State-sponsored violence causes men to beat their wives? No, I think we're seeing "conservative customs." What kind of "conservative customs" would these be? Presbyterian ones? Catholic ones?...(Read Full Post)