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June 11th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says thousands of Rohingya Muslims are still escaping from Myanmar following deadly violence in the country’s Rakhine state.
“Two years after inter-communal violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, thousands of people are still leaving by boat from the Bay of Bengal,” UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said on Tuesday.
The western state was the scene of violence against Rohingyas in 2012, which left some 200 dead and around 140,000 displaced.
According to the UNHCR, over 86,000 people have left the region by boat from the Bay of Bengal since June 2012, including 15,000 between January and April this year alone.
The refugees are said to have faced abuse and exploitation at the hands of smugglers and traffickers on the way. They were also mistreated once they reached countries like Thailand and Malaysia.
Some of those who arrived in Thailand told the UNHCR that they had been taken to overcrowded “smugglers’ camps” in the jungles or hills near the Thailand-Malaysia border and were held there for months “sometimes in cages” until their families could pay for their release, Edwards said.
“They recount daily beatings and that some people died,” he added, noting, “They spent their days sitting in confined spaces and nights sleeping upright or in fetal position due to the lack of space.”
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar account for about five percent of the country’s population of nearly 60 million. They have been persecuted and faced torture, neglect, and repression since the country’s independence in 1948.
The UN recognizes the Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as one of the world’s most persecuted communities.
The Myanmar government has been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups for failing to protect the Rohingya Muslims.
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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/06/10/366418/1000s-of-rohingyas-flee-myanmar-un/
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