Definition Of Rohingya Refugee

Thousands of rohingya immigrants from myanmar live in malaysia where they first began arriving in large numbers in the early 1990s.

Definition of rohingya refugee. A member of a group of mostly muslim people who live in but are not citizens of myanmar. Not rohingya so declared a malaysia based rohingya refugee in a may 2020 facebook post at pains to distinguish the rohingya community from other refugee groups in malaysia. Noun rohingya rohingyas 1 a member of a muslim people inhabiting western burma myanmar. Rohingya refugees in bangladesh mostly refer to forcibly displaced myanmar nationals from myanmar who are living in bangladesh.

Rohingya term commonly used to refer to a community of muslims generally concentrated in rakhine arakan state in myanmar burma although they can also be found in other parts of the country as well as in refugee camps in neighbouring bangladesh and other countries. Hundreds of thousands have fled to other countries in southeast asia including malaysia indonesia and philippines. Nearly all who fled traveled to southeast asian countries including bangladesh malaysia indonesia cambodia laos and thailand by rickety boats via the waters of the strait of malacca bay. The 2015 rohingya refugee crisis refers to the forcible displacement of hindu muslim myanmar nationals from the arrakkan rakhine state of myanmar to neighboring bangladesh malaysia indonesia cambodia laos and thailand in 2015 collectively dubbed boat people by international media.

The rohingya people have experienced ethnic and religious persecution in myanmar for decades. The rohingya are an ethnic muslim minority group who are denied basic human rights and citizenship by the myanmar government. They are considered to be among the most persecuted minorities in the world. The majority have escaped to bangladesh where there are two official registered refugee camps.