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Rohingya

Rohingya people
Ruáingga
Displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine State (8280610831).jpg
Total population
1,547,778 as of June 2015–2,000,000
Regions with significant populations
Myanmar (Rakhine State), Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Indonesia, India
 Myanmar 1.3 million
 Saudi Arabia 400,000
 Bangladesh 300,000–500,000
 Pakistan 200,000
 Thailand 100,000
 Malaysia 40,070
 India 36,000
 Indonesia 11,941
   Nepal 200
Languages
Rohingya
Religion
Islam

The Rohingya people (/ˈrɪnə/, /ˈrhɪnə/, /ˈrɪŋjə/, or /ˈrhɪŋjə/) are Muslim Indo-Aryan peoples from the Rakhine State, Myanmar. According to the Rohingyas and some scholars, they are indigenous to Rakhine State, while other historians claim that the group represents a mixture of precolonial and colonial immigrations. The official stance of the Myanmar government, however, has been that the Rohingyas are mainly illegal immigrants who migrated into Arakan following Burmese independence in 1948 or after the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. International media and human rights organizations have often described Rohingyas as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. According to the United Nations, the human rights violations against Rohingyas could be termed as "crimes against humanity".


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