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Press Conference by Maung Zarni, Leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition
Maung Zarni, Leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition, Adviser to the European Center for the Study of Extremism in Cambridge, UK, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on October 25, 2018. Rohingya, a group of approximately one million Muslims from the country's west. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh amid allegations of genocide by the Myanmar military. Japan is a key player in the Rohingya issue. It declined to support a UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar that said its military carried out mass killings and rapes of Rohingya with "genocidal intent." The Japanese government has expressed condolences for the deaths of Myanmar's security forces but has remained largely silent on Rohingya deaths. Some of Japan's largest companies are involved in projects to develop Myanmar's economy. (Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
