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Rohingya mark ‘Genocide Remembrance Day’

Rohingya refugees listen a speaker at a rally at a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh on Thursday. (AFP Photo)

Thousands of Rohingya refugees held “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since they fled a military offensive in Myanmar.

In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border with mainly Buddhist Myanmar to escape the onslaught, which is now the subject of a landmark genocide case at the UN’s top court.

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