Emanuel Stoakes is a freelance journalist and researcher, specializing in human rights. He was researcher and investigative producer of the Al Jazeera documentary “The Genocide Agenda.”
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, cry as they receive news that they cannot find refuge in the country, in Teknaf, on June 18, 2012. At least 50 people have died in western Myanmar's Rakhine state in more than a week of sectarian violence and revenge attacks between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya. Bangladesh is coming under increasing international pressure to open its border to Rohingya, but has so far refused to do so. AFP PHOTO/ STRINGER (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/GettyImages)
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