Burma's Forgotten Rohingya

BBC News, in Bangladesh

March 11, 2006

By Mike Thompson

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

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.

For decades this Muslim group of ethnic-Indo origins have been considered the lowest of the low in this mainly Buddhist country.

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