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Vijaita Singh
OCTOBER 05, 2018 09:52 IST
UPDATED: OCTOBER 05, 2018 10:01 IST
Rohingya are an ethnic group from Myanmar, mostly Muslims, who are based in Rakhine
province of West Myanmar. Myanmar has not granted them full citizenship and they are
classified as “resident foreigners” or as “associate citizens.”
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They speak a dialect of Bengali as against Burmese. They left Myanmar in
large numbers, first in 2012, during the first wave of organised attack
against them by the Burmese army .The attacks revived last year when
lakhs took shelter in Cox’s Bazaar area of Bangladesh. Around five lakh
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Rohingya have taken shelter in Saudi Arabia since 2012.
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