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Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees displaced by violence in MyanmarHasina* is 17 years old and from a village near Maungdaw in northern part of Rakhine state, Myanmar. In mid-October 2016, her village was attacked during the security operations. After her release from captivity, she called her brother Shamsu* who works as a rickshaw driver in Bangladesh to ask for help. With his financial assistance, Hasina and her family fled across the river.
*Names changed for protection reasonsBACKGROUND INFORMATION:On 9 October 2016, several attacks on border guard posts in the northern part of Rakhine state, Myanmar, triggered a security operation that forced an estimated 70,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh between October 2016 and February 2017. These recent arrivals in Bangladesh are in addition to some 33,000 Rohingya refugees who arrived between 1991 and 1992 and who live in two government-run camps named Kutupalong and Nayapara. As well as these two waves, there are several hundred thousand Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh between the early 1990s and 2016, who are undocumented and live in makeshift sites and local villages. The estimate for this undocumented group is between 200,000 and 500,000 – a number the Bangladesh government hopes to verify in an ongoing census.
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- Credits Saiful Huq Omi/UNHCR
- Themes Migration Conflict
- Regions Bangladesh Myanmar