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Published : Saturday, 4 May, 2024
Md Jahedul Islam; Monir Hossen Sarek
The Rohingya, an ethnic minority group from Myanmars Rakhine State, have endured decades of systematic discrimination, persecution, and violence at the hands of the countrys military. Their plight came to the worlds attention in 2017 when a brutal crackdown by Myanmars security forces forced over 740,000 Rohingya to flee across the border into neighboring Bangladesh, joining hundreds of thousands of others already languishing in squalid refugee camps. While the 2017 exodus was the most significant and most recent, it was not the first time Rohingya refugees sought sanctuary in Bangladesh. The first considerable influx occurred in 1992 after Myanmars military launched another campaign of violence and forced displacement against the Rohingya minority.