Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Rohingyas are a Muslim minority in Myanmar regarded by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal migrants from Bangladesh.[3] The Rohingyas have lived in Myanmar for generations and the Bangladesh government has called for Myanmar to take back the refugees.[4] They are denied citizenship in Myanmar and have been described as the world’s most persecuted minority.[5][6] Rohingyas are persecuted in Myanmar by security forces and Buddhist extremists.[7] Myanmar has denied persecuting the Rohingyas.[8] Since the 1970s Rohingya refugees have been settling in Bangladesh, with an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 refugees in Bangladesh as of 2017.[9] Most of the refugees are located along the Teknaf-Cox's Bazar highway that is parallel to the Naf River, which is the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar.[10] Most of the refugees are located in or near Cox's Bazar, a coastal area dependent upon tourism.[11]

Bangladesh blamed the refugees for crime and 2012 Ramu violence in Cox's Bazar.[12] Bangladesh also follows a policy of making the country unwelcome for Rohingya refugees.[13] The majority of the refugees are unregistered, with only 32 thousand refugees registering themselves with UNHCR and the Bangladeshi government. An estimated 200,000+ refugees are living unregistered in Bangladesh.[14] Amnesty International reports have stated that the Myanmar security forces are committing rape, extrajudicial killing, and burying homes belonging to the Rohingya in a December 2016 report.[15] Refugees have been displacing the indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts.[16] They have also been blamed for importing the dru