Briefing: Myanmar?s ?Rohingya? - what?s in a name?

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"Already widely reduced to statelessness and in many cases forced into camps for displaced people, an 800,000-strong population of Muslims in western Myanmar now faces increasing efforts to eradicate the very word they use to identify themselves as a group. Under pressure from Myanmar?s nominally-civilian government, the international community sometimes appears complicit in the airbrushing of ?Rohingya? from official discourse. In this briefing, IRIN breaks down some of the questions about a group of people that has been called one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

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IRIN

Date of Publication: 

2014-09-15

Date of entry: 

2014-09-23

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English

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