Burma's forgotten Rohingya

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They have been called one of the world's most persecuted people. Some argue that they are also one of the most forgotten.

Burma's forgotten Rohingya
By Mike Thompson
BBC News, in Bangladesh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4793924.stm

The Rohingya people of western Burma's Arakan State are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission and have no legal right to own land or property.

Not only that but even though groups of them have been living in Burma for hundreds of years, they are also denied citizenship by the country's military government.

In addition to their almost total lack of legal rights many have been regularly beaten by police, forced to do slave labour and jailed for little or no reason.
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But why, I asked his younger friend, does the Burmese government persecute your people like this? He replied: "The main reason is to finish us. They can't kill us or the international community would see it. So this is the way to banish us from the land."

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