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When 220 of these former Burmese refugees, known as Rohingyas, were discovered and then Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood celebrity and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, talked about their plight, it focused the spotlight on them again, if only briefly.
Heidi Kingstone: The Worst Refugee Situation in the World 2009
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Between 1991 and 1992, a quarter of a million of these Muslims, known as Rohingyas, fled as refugees to Bangladesh.
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ASEAN's members have generally good relations but faced tensions earlier this year when thousands of Muslim refugees, known as Rohingyas, fled Myanmar by boat.
My Sinchew - 2009
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The Rohingyas are a stateless Muslim minority group who face persecution in Myanmar, whose military government does not recognise them as citizens.
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In one of the sources, there was a movie made by "Rohingyas" proclaiming that Burma must become an Islamic state in the near future.www. atimes.com There is no existence of
WN.com - Articles related to Ethnic group in Myanmar gears up for war, peace 2010
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Restrictive citizenship laws enacted in 1982 make many Muslims living in the area stateless; "'Rohingyas' do not exist in the Union of Myanmar and are not one of Myanmar's indigenous national races," the government told the U.N. Human Rights Council last year.
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a movie made by "Rohingyas" proclaiming that Burma must become an Islamic state in the near future.www. atimes.com There is no existence of "rohinya" ethnic recorded in British colonial documents, Burmese documents, Bengali documents, or any spoken history of Burma or Bangladesh.
WN.com - Articles related to Ethnic group in Myanmar gears up for war, peace 2010
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More than 200,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh, where some have spent decades in camps while being denied both immigration rights and formal refugee status.
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However, that nation stripped them of citizenship in 1982, and Rohingyas say they are systematically and violently oppressed by Burmese security forces.
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Rohingyas are a Muslim minority with historical roots in Burma.
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