Testimonies from Tal

The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the border region between Bangladesh and Rakhine State in western Myanmar (formerly Burma). Their accounts of life in Myanmar include severe human rights abuses: restrictions on movement and on marriage; forced labour; land and assets confiscation; violence and arbitrary arrest.

Ten thousand unregistered Rohingya men, women and children have sought refuge in Tal makeshift camp, near Teknaf, south east Bangladesh. Most people in Tal were originally formally recognised refugees living in an official UNHCR-administered camp. They were then forcefully repatriated to Myanmar, but were later forced to flee the ongoing persecution in the country again.

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