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   Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees Are The World’s Largest Group of Stateless
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   May 11, 2015, at 2:37 PM

Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees Are The World’s Largest Group of Stateless People

   By Leah Libresco
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   to still be on the oceans, fleeing Myanmar. If these groups of refugees
   are turned back, it’s not clear where the Rohingya will be sent,
   because they are considered stateless. In fact, they are the largest
   group of stateless people in the world.

   Rohingya residents of Myanmar are not citizens of their own nation. In
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   The United Nations estimates that Myanmar has relegated over a million
   Rohingya to the status of stateless people — they constitute 10 percent
   of all stateless people in the world.

   Over 800,000 stateless Rohingya still live in Myanmar, and 100,000 of
   them have been confined to restrictive and dangerous camps. Myanmar
   has expelled Doctors Without Borders from regions populated by
   Rohingya, depriving residents of medical care and of foreign witnesses
   to attacks and massacres.
          COUNTRY       STATELESS POPULATION
   1 Myanmar            810k
   2 Côte d’Ivoire      700