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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera Staff

Rohingya call for safe return home, 5 years after Myanmar exodus

A boy is seen behind a barbed-wire fence at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh [Sulyman Hossain/Al Jazeera]

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – Rohingya people cannot be guaranteed safety in Myanmar, advocates say, where the government has been accused of decades of abuse that has left the long-persecuted ethnic minority largely stateless.

For the nearly one million Rohingya living in the world’s largest refugee settlement in neighbouring Bangladesh, conditions are squalid and what limited opportunities existed have slowly disappeared, rights groups and residents said.

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