Rohingya youths form football team in Japan, appeal for peace

As the Rohingya refugee crisis continues far away, the ethnic group's youths living north of Tokyo have formed a football team in a bid to prove peace can be achieved between groups regardless of religion and ethnicity.Salamat FC is led by Mamoru Mizuno, a 16-year-old second-generation Muslim Rohingya in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, which has become home to refugees fleeing persecution and sectarian violence by the Buddhist majority in Myanmar.They have played Vietnamese and other Myanmar minorities in Japan, with matches also planned this month against a team of Burmese -- a majority in …READ FULL ARTICLE