Buddhism is the main religion in Myanmar. Only six percent of the Burmese people are Christians and about 3 percent are Muslims. The Rohingya people who live in Rakhine state are Muslim and most of them are without citizenship as Myanmar passed a law in 1982 that denies the Rohingya national...
Aside from the regional languages, India has several immigrant languages, such as Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Rohingya, Iranian Persian, Chinese, Burushaski, Western Armenian and Uyghur. You’ve just had a glimpse of the interesting facts about the Hindi language, so let’s talk about the rest...
which had called for the settlement of longstanding boundary disputes over undemarcated areas and the exchange of territorial enclaves, but which had never been implemented; Bangladesh struggles to accommodate 29,000 Rohingya, Burmese Muslim minority from Arakan State, living as refugees in Cox's Baza...
which had called for the settlement of longstanding boundary disputes over undemarcated areas and the exchange of territorial enclaves, but which had never been implemented; Bangladesh struggles to accommodate 29,000 Rohingya, Burmese Muslim minority from Arakan State, living as refugees in Cox's Baza...
The government also officially recognizes several minority languages that predominate in Myanmar's Autonomous States: Jingpho, Mon, Karen, and Shan. Population Myanmar probably has about 55.5 million people, although census figures are considered unreliable. Myanmar is an exporter of both migrant workers...
Pope Francis, born Jorge Bergoglio, is the pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first pope from Latin America. Read about his age, education, and more.
Rohingya refugeesTwo siblings at a refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in Sittwe, Myanmar, 2015. 2 of 2 refugees at a “tent school” in SomaliaRefugees attending a UNICEF-supported “tent school” in Hargeysa, Somalia, 2010. Since the 1960s large concentrations of refugees have been located in...
The government received considerable international and domestic support for taking them in, but there were domestic concerns about Bangladesh hosting the Rohingya indefinitely. While the Awami League-led government had provided refuge for the Rohingya, it also pressured them into “voluntary repatriation”...
He was at the centre of the company’s response to allegations that it had negligently allowed its platform to be used to incite hate and violence against theRohingyaminority inMyanmarand to a whistleblower’s accusation that Facebook had relaxed some of the safety measures it instituted for th...
The government provided refuge and assistance, though it did not grant refugee status, and worked to repatriate the Rohingya on a voluntary basis. The government received praise both internationally and domestically for helping the Rohingya, but concerns grew about finding a permanent solution to the...