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Rohingya Muslims must return to Myanmar as citizens: UN Refugee Cheif

Monitoring Desk

UNITED NATIONS:  The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi has said the Myanmar must grant citizenship to the Rohingya people and allow them to return to their native areas from where they were driven by an army campaign.

The UN chief for refugees said this on Thursday. He added that the Rohingya people cannot remain stateless because if they return to Rakhine without citizenship this will create discrimination and abuse as it happened in past.

At least 600,000 Rohingya people have fled from Rakhine state of Myanmar since August because of military operation against them and ethnic genocide of Rohingya Muslim as it is the world most acute refugee crisis.

The Myanmar government claimed that the security crackdown was in response to attacks by Rohingya militants on police posts in August. The Rohingya have faced discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for decades, where they are denied citizenship and denigrated as illegal Bengali immigrants.

The Myanmar government also needs to initiates development program in Rakhine state and also give them citizenships, Grandi added.

 

The Frontier Post

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