DHAKA (DPA) - Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown might be able to apply for citizenship if they return to the country, a top Myanmar official said Sunday (July 28).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DHAKA - Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown might be able to apply for citizenship if they return to the country, a top Myanmar official said Sunday .
Addressing a news conference after visiting Rohingya camps in Bangladesh's south-eastern beach town of Cox's Bazar, Thu said that Rohingya may be entitled to apply for the category of"naturalised citizen" in his country. Myanmar stripped Rohingya Muslims of their citizenship in 1982 after passing a new citizenship law that labelled them"illegal immigrants from Bangladesh." Thu said that, according to the law, they may not be entitled to full-fledged citizenship but could seek"naturalized citizenship" instead, while their children could be entitled to full citizenship.
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