One family, four countries - the dispossession of the RohingyaRohingya refugee Robi Alam hasn’t seen his seven brothers for years, all of them scattered around the world by violence in Myanmar. Nearly six years on, the eight brothers are now split across four countries: Bangladesh, India, the United States and Myanmar. When the brothers were last united, in 2012, there were around 1.2 million Rohingya living in Rakhine state. Now fewer than a third remain. Myanmar, which denies the Rohingya citizenship, drove most of the minority out in October 2016 and August 2017 in army-led crackdowns that the United Nations has said may amount to “ethnic cleansing”

Source: Mint May 26, 2018 13:18 UTC