The Rohingya are a community of about a million Muslims in the northern part of the Myanmar state of Rakhine. (You may know Myanmar as Burma.) Under the laws for Myanmar, they are not considered citizens and they are not allowed to vote.
They are considered aliens.
Now they are being driven out of Myanmar, and hundreds of thousands are refugees in Bangladesh. Myanmar feels no compassion; after all, the Rohingya are not citizens. Why should they be allowed to stay?
We look at this and think, how terrible it is that a country would deliberately create refugees by the hundreds of thousands.
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