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The U.N. has rejected an offer by the Burmese government to resettle Royingya Muslims, a stateless people who live in western Burma and who have been denied citizenship in the country. The Burmese president told the U.N. refugee representative on Thursday that non-citizen Rohingya Muslims in far western Burma should be placed in refugee camps or deported, following sectarian violence in the country in June which claimed up to 79 lives of both Muslims and Buddhists.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Thursday rejected the suggestion by Burmese President Thein Sein, saying it was not the U.N.?s job to resettle the Rohingya, who the U.N. calls one of the most persecuted people in the world.
?The resettlement programs organized by UNHCR are for refugees who are fleeing a country to another, in very specific circumstances. Obviously, it?s not related to this situation,” Guterres told the media after a meeting with the president..."
Source/publisher:
Mizzima
Date of Publication:
2012-07-13
Date of entry:
2012-07-13
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
