The Rohingya have long been subjected to discrimination in Buddhist majority Myanmar, which denies them citizenship. Photo: AFPCox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh in the 15 days since new violence erupted, the United Nations said on Saturday. “Some 290,000 Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh since 25 August,” said Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency. Refugee camps near Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar already had about 300,000 Rohingya before the upsurge in violence and are now overwhelmed. The latest figure takes the number of Rohingya refugees who have arrived in Bangladesh since violence erupted last October to 377,000.

Source: Mint September 09, 2017 08:15 UTC