Page 4 - Rohingya crisis booklet

All about Rohingya The Rohingya are Muslim ethnic-minority

group from Myanmar. They have lived in
the Rakhine State of the the country for

centuries (Dewan, 2017).

The government of Myanmar denies

their citizenship and refuses them to

recognise as their people. They have

migrated across the region since 1970s.
The latest migration started in 25 August

2017 (BBC, 2018).

More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees

have arrived from Myanmar’s in

Bangladesh Since 2017. More than half of

them are women and children (Oxfam
Photo by McConnell (2017), in an article UNHCR’s (2017) article titled
“The return of the Rohingya to Myanmar must meet international International, 2018).
standards”. Link:
http://www.unhcr.org/dach/at/18780-die-ruckkehr-der-rohingya-nach-
myanmar-muss-internationalen-standards-genugen.html