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UN: Over 370,000 Rohingyas are now refugees

13 Sep 2017, 4:59 AM
UN: Over 370,000 Rohingyas are now refugees
UN: Over 370,000 Rohingyas are now refugees

GLOBAL, SEP 13: The United Nations (UN) reported that approximately 370,000 Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh from Rakhine, since August 25, which is equivalent to one-third of the 1.1 million Rohingya population in the country.

The Muslim minority group has been suppressed for decades where they are being considered as illegal immigrant.

Bangladesh government said that almost 3,000 Rohingyas were killed in the conflict.

However, the recent violence in Rakhine on August 25 saw thousands of them crossing the border toward Bangladesh.

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The Rohingya refugees said that their villages are burnt by the Buddhist and Myanmar’s soldiers while many of them were killed.

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