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Rohingya: ‘Kill us, but don’t deport us to Myanmar’
The Rohingya people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, most of whom are Muslims and had lived in Rakhine State in Myanmar until the genocide took place in 2017. Myanmar’s military brutally cracked down and forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. After the Myanmar junta took control of the country in a military coup, the figure increased to over a million, half of whom are children. Most of them live in refugee camps with food rations from charities in barracks but without jobs or hope. They are now the world’s largest stateless population. The Bangladesh government wants them to go back to Myanmar, which means death for them and put them on a remote island. No other country welcomes these refugees either. Some even fled to India, where Muslims are a minority and have not been treated fairly. There are both children and newly born children among the refugees whose present and future outlooks are dim at best. Some even wish to be killed rather than be sent back to their homeland. Who else chooses death over homeland?
Read the article and learn about the life and outlook of the Rohingya people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62658647
Rohingya: ‘Kill us, but don’t deport us to Myanmar’
The Rohingya people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, most of whom are Muslims and had lived in Rakhine State in Myanmar until the genocide took place in 2017. Myanmar’s military brutally cracked down and forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. After the Myanmar junta took control of the country in a military coup, the figure increased to over a million, half of whom are children. Most of them live in refugee camps with food rations from charities in barracks but without jobs or hope. They are now the world’s largest stateless population. The Bangladesh government wants them to go back to Myanmar, which means death for them and put them on a remote island. No other country welcomes these refugees either. Some even fled to India, where Muslims are a minority and have not been treated fairly. There are both children and newly born children among the refugees whose present and future outlooks are dim at best. Some even wish to be killed rather than be sent back to their homeland. Who else chooses death over homeland?
Read the article and learn about the life and outlook of the Rohingya people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62658647
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