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Bangladesh Urges UN to Help Repatriate Burma Migrants


Bangladesh is asking the United Nations refugee agency to help repatriate hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas who have illegally entered Bangladesh from Burma.

Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said the mass migration has caused major damage to the scarce land, forests and other resources in Bangladesh.

Moni spoke after meeting with a representative of the U.N. refugee agency. She also urged the Burmese authorities to take back the Rohingyas.

The Rohingya people have fled Buddhist-majority Burma to escape alleged abuse and persecution. Burma does not recognize the group as an ethnic minority and denies them citizenship and other basic rights.

The Dhaka government says there are about 400,000 Rohingyas living in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, with 28,000 housed in refugee camps near the border with Burma.

The Rohingyas have also fled to Thailand and other nearby countries.

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