As the government began its first census of undocumented Rohingyas in the country on Thursday, the Myanmar refugees fear the process may lead to a mass relocation or their forcible repatriation back home, reports The New York Times.
The Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic group in western Myanmar, described by the United Nations as the most persecuted minority in the world, have crossed the border in waves over several decades.
Officially, about 32,000 have taken shelter in camps administered by the United Nations. However, hundreds of thousands more live undocumented in squalid, makeshift camps or scattered in the country's southeast region, vulnerable to human traffickers and exploited as cheap labour. (Courtesy of en.prothom-alo.com)
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