Burma?s Rohingya Stuck in Refugee Limbo in India

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"When Kohinoor, a stateless Rohingya Muslim, fled her home in Burma after a wave of attacks by majority Buddhists, she hoped for a chance to rebuild her life in a new country. She knew she would have to trek for days with little food and water and risk her life being smuggled across borders by traffickers. But she and her family did not imagine their present life of destitution and discrimination in India, the country they had chosen as their refuge. ?We were chased out of Burma. We were chased out of Bangladesh. Now we are in India, the people here tell us that India is not our country. So where will we go?” asked Kohinoor, 20, sitting in a makeshift tent on a patch of wasteland in southern Delhi..."

Creator/author: 

Nita Balla

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Reuters via "The Irrawaddy"

Date of Publication: 

2014-09-15

Date of entry: 

2015-08-22

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English

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