Plight of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar/Burma
At a Glance
06-02-2017
The brutal military crackdown since October 2016 in Myanmar/Burma's Rakhine State has highlighted the tragic situation of Muslim Rohingya, often described as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Deprived of citizenship and basic freedoms at home, those who risk their lives to escape can at best hope for a precarious existence abroad.
At a Glance
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- aid to refugees
- Asia and Oceania
- Burma/Myanmar
- cooperation policy
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- ethnic cleansing
- ethnic discrimination
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- LAW
- military regime
- Muslim
- national accounts
- political framework
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- poverty
- protection of minorities
- religious discrimination
- repression
- rights and freedoms
- social framework
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- the EU's international role