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this week been gali hindus are celebrating their annual durga puja festival in young gone worshipping their goddess durga and marking the victory of good over evil. born in yangon eighty six year old peace was has been coming to this bengali hindu temple since he was a child and remembers more difficult times for his people back in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . it was difficult for us to lift him back then we only had foreign registration cards so it was very difficult to travel but now it is much better hindus with ten gali roots and muslims with bengali roots or entered the area of rakhine in the early one nine hundred century. but after the first burma's british war record was controlled by the british there colony spawn across india so people would bengali roots came to rock calling. but the government here does not recognise there were him as an ethnic group. some bengali hindus were also caught up in the recent violence in rakhine the government says dozens were killed by revenge of fighters their bodies found in mass graves the fighters deny this several hundred hindus