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By Avax News
April 20, 2014
Rohingya refugees unload fish from a boat in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer) 

People push a boat to land in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer) 
60 year old Mukluhammad, 25 year old Zahad Hossain, and 45 year old Dilchar build a roof on their new home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer) 

Rajama sits in the doorway of her home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district, Bangladesh. She fled to Bangladesh from the Dhuachopara village in the Rachidhong district of Myanmar. The Chakma people came during prayer time in a giant mob and started burning houses and burning people alive. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer) 

32 year old Mahada Khatum repairs a fishing net outside her home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. Some years ago she escaped violence and discrimination from the Zomgara Baharchara village in the Meherulla district of Myanmar. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)

7 year old Shumiakter helps her 5 year old sister Rubiata swing on a rope outside their home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. After their grandparents were killed in the sectarian violence in Myanmar their parents fled to Bangladesh. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)

A Rohingya child is seen in a home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN special rapporteur on Human Rights, said that recent developments in Myanmar's Rakhine state were the latest in a “long history of discrimination and persecution against the Rohingya Muslim community which could amount to crimes against humanity”, and that the Myanmar government's decision not to allow Rohingya Muslims to register their ethnicity in the March census meant that the population tally was not in accordance with international standards. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer

Hamid and his daughter Rajama sit inside their home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. They fled to Bangladesh from the Dhuachopara village in the Rachidhong district of Myanmar. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer) 

Over the years hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have taken refuge in Bangladesh to escape the deadly sectarian violence. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer) 

45 year old Dilbhar looks towards the camera as she stands in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. She escaped to Bangladesh from the Bodchara village in the Mondu district of Myanmar. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)

32 year old Mahada Khatum, 5 year old Hasan Sharif, and 9 year old Umma Kulsum sit outside their home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. The family escaped violence and discrimination from the Zomgara Baharchara village in the Meherulla district of Myanmar. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)

12 year old Nurana stands outside her home in the Shamalapur Rohingya refugee settlement in Chittagong district. She escaped to Bangladesh from Myanmar with her parents and 6 siblings. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)
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