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The camp is one of three, which house up to 300,000 Rohingya people fleeing inter-communal violence in Myanmar. Police checkpoint in Sittwe with closed-off Rohingya Muslim area in the background. The Rohingya people have been described as "one of the world's least wanted minorities" and "some of the world's most persecuted people".
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
The Rohingya conflict is an ongoing conflict in the northern part of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly known as Arakan, Burma), [37] characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, a military crackdown on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar's security forces, [38] [39] [40] and militant attacks by Rohingya insurgents in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and ...
Instead, immigration crackdowns are common and Rohingya boat people are often deported out of these countries, falling victims to slavery instead. [144] Because of the lack of proper documentation, many Rohingya people rely on smugglers and human traffickers to help them flee from persecution in Myanmar.
Rohingya conflict, a series of ongoing violent clashes in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar Arakan massacres in 1942, commonly regarded as the event that started the conflict. 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis, a mass migration of Rohingya people from Myanmar and Bangladesh, due in part to the conflict. 2016 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar; 2017 ...
The Rohingya people are considered "stateless entities", as the Myanmar government does not recognise them as an ethnic group and people of Myanmar. The Rohingyas lack legal protection from the Government of Myanmar, are regarded as Muslim refugees from Bangladesh & Indonesia and Hindu refugees from Thailand , Cambodia & Laos and face strong ...
The Rohingya people are a Muslim Indo-Aryan [4] ethnic minority which has faced mass persecution and ethnic cleansing in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in recent years. The persecution of the Rohingya has been described as a genocide. [5] [6] [7] Successive Myanmar governments and many elected officials have considered them illegal immigrants. [8]
The Rohingya people are an ethnic minority that mainly live in the northern region of Rakhine State, Myanmar, and have been described as one of the world's most persecuted minorities. [7] [8] [9] In modern times, the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar dates back to the 1970s. [10]