Myanmar considers them illegal immigrants and denies them citizenship. Over decades, many have fled the country to escape persecution. Thousands of Rohingya were killed and more than 700,000 fled to Bangladesh following an army crackdown in 2017.

Myanmar 2020

• Human rights violations in the context of internal armed conflict.
• Internally displaced people.
• Denial of humanitarian access.
• Freedoms of expression, association and assembly.
• Access to information.
• Corporate accountability.
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.
• Right to education.

Forced labour, human trafficking and child labour are common. The Burmese military junta is also notorious for rampant use of sexual violence as an instrument of control, including allegations of systematic rapes and taking of sex slaves by the military, a practice which continued in 2012.

The persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar dates back to the 1970s. Since then, the Rohingya people have been persecuted on a regular basis by the government and nationalist Buddhists. The tensions between the various religious groups in the country were often exploited by past military rulers of Myanmar.

The Rohingya people are an ethnic group from Myanmar, once called Burma. Most live in Rakhine State on Myanmar’s western coast. The story of that persecution has its roots in Britain’s colonization of Burma, and modern-day Myanmar’s refusal to recognize the existence of a people who have existed for thousands of years.

The Rohingya conflict is an ongoing conflict in the northern part of Myanmar’s Rakhine State (formerly known as Arakan), characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, a military crackdown on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar’s security forces, and militant attacks by …

Their camp is outside world’s largest refugee settlement The Hindu Rohingya families — nearly 410 people, most of them children — live in a ‘Hindu Camp’, located just outside Camp 1, the first of 27 refugee settlements that make up the Kutupalong-Balukhali camps, the largest in the world.

To escape discrimination and violence in Myanmar, minority Rohingya Muslims have for decades fled from the Buddhist-majority country to neighboring Bangladesh and other countries, including India. A year ago, it was estimated that 40,000 Rohingya refugees lived in India, scattered across different states.

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There are over 40,000 Rohingya illegal immigrants in India, mostly in Assam, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. On 7 September 2017, Kiren Rijiju, the Minister of State and Home Minister of India, said that “all the Rohingya refugees are illegal immigrants and will be deported back”.

As a Muslin ethnic minority living in a predominantly Buddhist country, the Rohingya are not recognized as an official ethnic group and have been denied citizenship since 1982. They are one of the largest stateless populations in the world.

1.5 million Rohingya

Rohingya (/roʊˈɪndʒə, -hɪn-, -ɪŋjə/), also known as Ruáingga (IPA: [rʊˈɜiɲɟə]; ), is a language spoken by the Rohingya people of Rakhine State.