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"Mr President, I have visited some of the camps for the Rohingya people in Bangladesh, where people have been eking out an existence for at least a couple of decades. What we have seen going on in Burma/Myanmar, as many have said here, has basically been a form of ethnic cleansing, where we see the Rohingya who have been there for generations instrumentalised by the government and allowed to vote at times when it has been convenient in sham elections; now, when maybe it is not so convenient, the white cards that had allowed Rohingya people to vote have been removed.
Rohingya people there need the State’s permission to marry and to have children. They have had no protection from sectarian violence and, indeed, they have been victims of state violence and eviction. So it is not surprising that many of them have fled across the borders, where again they find themselves at risk of being instrumentalised. It is clear, as others have said, that the source of this problem lies in Burma/Myanmar. They have not even taken back the 200-300 people that they have recognised as their citizens from the camps in Bangladesh.
So I would add my voice and that of my Group to those who are saying we need to do more with the Burmese Government to actually make them live up to their responsibilities and to take back, take charge of and give citizenship to these people who they have persecuted for so long."@en1
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