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{"id":14491,"date":"2016-02-12T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestateless.com\/?p=14491"},"modified":"2016-02-12T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:53:20","slug":"unregistered-rohingyas-in-bangladesh-to-be-counted-in-first-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/unregistered-rohingyas-in-bangladesh-to-be-counted-in-first-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Unregistered Rohingyas in Bangladesh to be counted in first census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Bangladeshi government has started its first census of unregistered members of the Rohingya ethnic group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is thought more than half a million live in the country without authorisation after fleeing persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many Rohingya people are stateless, and they have been subject to people-trafficking in large numbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The census will last several weeks and organisers hope to find out more about Rohingyas&#8217; socio-economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many are very poor. Tens of thousands are registered as living in two refugee camps in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The census will be carried out in co-operation with the International Organization for Migration and will involve house visits. So far there have only been small-scale research projects and estimates of the numbers of unregistered Rohingyas there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rohingyas are a distinct Muslim ethnic group. In Myanmar, from which many have fled, Rohingyas&#8217; rights are heavily restricted. Most are not recognised as Myanmar citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2015 tens of thousands were stranded at sea after surrounding countries would not let them in.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why did so many Rohingyas flee Myanmar?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9752\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9752 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestateless.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rohingya-boat-koh-lipe-thailand-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"(Christophe chambault\/AFP)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Christophe chambault\/AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the Rohingyas say they are descendants of Arab traders who have been in the region for generations, Myanmar&#8217;s governments say they are not a genuine ethnic group but are actually Bengali migrants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Successive Myanmar governments have been introducing <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/brouk.org.uk\/?page_id=2\">policies to repress the Rohingya <\/a>since the 1970s, according to Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (Brouk).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are denied basic services and <a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-26333580\">their movements are severely restricted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June and October 2012 there were<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-18324614\"> large scale attacks on Rohingyas<\/a> following the gang rape of a Buddhist woman.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who are the Rohingyas?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rohingyas are a distinct, Muslim ethnic group mainly living in Myanmar<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thought to be descended from Muslim traders who settled there more than 1,000 years ago<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also live in Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Myanmar, they are subjected to forced labour, have no land rights, and are heavily restricted<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh many are also desperately poor, with no documents or job prospects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC News The Bangladeshi government has started its first census of unregistered members of the Rohingya ethnic group. It is thought more than half a million live in the country without authorisation after fleeing persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Many Rohingya people are stateless, and they have been subject to people-trafficking in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,236],"tags":[238,225,210,289,261,227,89,239,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}