UN demands end to Rohingyas' 'enduring misery'


A Rohingya girl filling the pots with water from a tap at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. - Reuters

GENEVA: The United Nations called Friday (Aug 22) for citizenship, equality and security for Myanmar's Rohingya minority, eight years on from the crackdown that sent more than a million fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh.

The mostly Muslim Rohingya have been persecuted in Myanmar for decades, with many escaping the 2017 military clampdown.

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