Omar Al Muqdad Morocco World News August 8, 2013 Burma, officially referred to as Myanmar, currently represents a positive story that is reflected in the Western media as one of political opening, of a military dictatorship emerging into an era of democracy, human rights, development and hope for the future. This narrative might be true for much of the country, but it significantly leaves out the struggles of the Rohingya. The mobs that took place that early morning in March were Buddhists enraged by the killing of a monk. Yet the victims were Muslims who had nothing to do with it – students and teachers from a prestigious Islamic school in central Myanmar. In the last hours of their lives, police had been dispatched to rescue them from a burning compound surrounded by swarms of angry men. And when they emerged cowering, hands atop their heads, they only had to make it to four police trucks waiting on the road above. It wasn’t far to ...