Sentences with phrase «flee ethnic cleansing»

These women have endured more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their children can have education and a future.

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Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after militant attacks on Aug. 25 sparked a crackdown led by security forces in western Rakhine state that the United Nations and United States have said constitute ethnic cleansing.

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

As neighbouring countries respond to hundreds of thousands of Muslims that have fled Myanmar amid allegations of ethnic cleansing, a charity has told Premier that Christians should be concerned about what is going on.

Some are asylum seekers fleeing from conflict or ethnic cleansing but others are as desperate for work and a future.

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