Muslim devotees break their fast at the Nwe Aye Mosque in Yangon on the first day of Ramadan on March 12. (AFP)

‘The Ababil are flying’: Myanmar’s Muslims fight for change

As in other communities, some Muslim leaders are backing the regime, while many more fight against it, but some find it difficult to trust a democracy movement that has disappointed them before.

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