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Forgotten conflicts While many world conflicts receive ample media attention, others often fall off the radar, neglected by governments and overlooked by the media.
Burma
In Burma, also known as Myanmar, the Rohingya Muslims – estimated at 800,000 – have struggled against discrimination from the nation's military junta, which ruled the nation for half a century, and today with the ethnic Rakhine who live in northern Myanmar. Pictured, Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13.
Munir Uzzaman
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Burma
Muslim residents carry their belongings as they evacuate their houses amid ongoing violence in Sittwe, capital of Burma's western state of Rakhine, on June 12. Human rights groups consider the Rohingya Muslims one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
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Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers return to their positions during military exercises outside Stepanakert, the capital of the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, on April 19, 2006. Russia and the United States are working together under the aegis of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to find a resolution to the 18-year old conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Karen Minasian
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AP
Kashmir
China, India and Pakistan all have claims in Kashmir, a region roughly 85,000 square miles large and home to more than 12 million people. The foundation of many armed conflicts and uprisings between India and Pakistan, the dispute over Kashmir continues to thwart bilateral relations and fuel violent separatist movements. In this photo, policemen detain activists of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front during a demonstration in Srinagar, India, on April 23, 2010.
Mukhtar Khan
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AP
Kashmir
The Kashmir conflict stems from the partition of British India in 1947, forming modern-day India and Pakistan. In this photo, the daughter of Peer Hisam-ud-Din, center, and Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, second left, mourn near the body of Peer Hisam-ud-Din before his funeral in Srinagar, India, on Sept. 16, 2004. A prominent hard-line separatist leader, Peer Hisam-ud-Din was shot to death in his home by unknown assailants.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Niger Delta
The ongoing conflict on the Niger Delta stems from tensions between foreign oil companies (supported by the Nigerian government) and minority groups in the region, who feel marginalized by the economic-driven endeavors. In this photo, militants wearing black masks, military fatigues and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers patrol the creeks of the Niger Delta on Feb. 24, 2006.
George Osodi
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AP
Niger Delta
Three armed militants sit in a mud house destroyed by Nigerian soldiers during confrontation with militias at Okorota, one of their village hideouts in the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta, on July 1, 2004. The conflict has plagued Africa’s largest nation by population, at over 170 million, since the 1990s.
Pius Utomi Ekpei
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AFP/Getty Images
Southern Philippines
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), an Islamic separatist group located in the southern Philippines, has been fighting for its independence from the Philippine government since the late 1960s. In this photo, a policeman armed with a M60 machine gun stands beside a truck torched by Muslim rebels in the remote village of Al-Barka on the island province of Basilan on August 1, 2007. A couple weeks earlier, members of the MILF killed 14 Philippine soldiers, beheading 11 of them, while the soldiers were searching for a kidnapped Italian priest, Giancarlo Bossi.
Al Jacinto
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AP
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Since war broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1998, more than 5 million people have died, many of them from starvation and poor access to healthcare, according to Oxfam America. Pictured, children surround a United Nations Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) during a patrol on December 6, 2008, near the Mugunga camp for internally displaced people in Goma.
Pascal Guyot
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AFP/Getty Images
Colombia
A conflict amost 50 years old, the Colombian civil war is a complicated string of disjointed armed conflicts between the government, guerrilla groups and paramilitary outfits. Associated in part with the ongoing drug war, the Colombian conflict has left between 2 million to 4 million people displaced and more than 100,000 dead. In this photo, soldiers stand guard by the body bags containing 10 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels killed during clashes with the army in Cali, Colombia, on March 24, 2011.
Christian Escobar Mora
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AP
Colombia
An unidentified woman rests with her relatives in a makeshift camp in a city park in downtown Bogota on July 29, 2009. More than 800 people, displaced from years of internal conflict in Colombia's provinces, took over the city park in March 2009, setting up homes built of plastic, canvas and scrap wood.
William Fernando Martinez
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AP
Eastern India
In India, the Maoist insurgency – which grew out of a peasant uprising in 1967 – has spread to half of the country's 29 states and is considered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to be the biggest threat to India's internal security. Indian policemen carry a Maoist who was shot dead during an encounter with the district police in a dense forest at Bitaramda near Ghatshila, some 100 kilometers from Jamshedpur, eastern India, on February 14, 2008.
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Darfur
With the world's attention on the infant nation of South Sudan and its ongoing border conflicts with Khartoum, Darfur has recently fallen out of the 24-hour news cycle. In this photo, taken April 2, 2012, Abdurrahim Ahmed Mohamed, 12, is seen at the Al Salam camp for displaced persons in El Fasher, Sudan. Abdurrahim lost his right hand and the sight of his left eye in 2008 when unexploded ordnance went off in his village, Kabkabiya.
Albert Gonzalez Farran
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AP
Darfur
The Darfur genocide and its fallout continues to plague the region of Sudan. In this August 2004 photo, Sudan Liberation Army rebels in Farawiyah walk past the remains of civilians who they said were killed by Sudanese military forces.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Kurdistan
The Kurds – an ethnic group of well over 20 million – were effectively squeezed out of the nation-creating foray of the post-Ottoman Empire era. Today, they continue to struggle for independence, entangled in ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Turkey and Syria. In this picture taken on Dec. 18, 2009, a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, practices with a Kalashnikov at their camp in the Qandil Mountains, near the Turkish border with northern Iraq.
Yahya Ahmed
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AP
Xinjiang, China
Often overshadowed by the well-publicized conflict between the Peoples Republic of China and Tibet, the Uighurs, a Muslim community in northwestern China, continue to struggle for greater autonomy amid considerable persecution and bouts of violence from the Chinese government. In this July 5, 2010, photo, taken in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, passersby help a Chinese woman who broke down after she burned offerings at the site where one of her relatives was killed during the bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity.
Peter Parks
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AFP/Getty Images
Xinjiang, China
In this photo from Aug. 1, 2011, some 20 activists demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy in Vienna, Austria, to protest against the repression of China's Uighur minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. More than 8 million Uighers, a Turkish ethnic group, currently live in Xinjiang and account for more than 80 percent of the total population, according to 2000 census figures.
Dieter Nagl
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Casamance, Senegal
Classified as a low-level civil war, the conflict over the Casamance in Senegal has persisted since 1982 over the question of independence for the region. In this photo, a young Senegalese boy waits by a tent in the Bourgadier camp for displaced populations and refugees in Senegal, 4 kilometers from the border with Guinea-Bissau, on April 7, 2006.
Laurent Emmanuel
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AP
Casamance, Senegal
Although a minority in the whole of Senegal, the Jola people, who have a longstanding history of independence movements, make up the majority of the Casamance region. Pictured, three injured persons wait for assistance on May 7, 2008, at an emergency room in Ziguinchor, Senegal. Armed unidentified men cut off left ears of 16 people for allegedly entering the part of Casamance under their control.
Georges Gobet
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AFP/Getty Images
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