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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Five years into rohingya crisis what s the plan - You Need To See This

An exhausted Rohingya refugee touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, in this Sept 11, 2017 file photo. (Photo: Reuters)

Myanmar's violent ethnic cleansing programme, which forced roughly a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps, marked its fifth anniversary yesterday.

During that time, the population of refugees has soared. Some 30,000 Rohingya children are being born every year in Bangladesh on average. As such, the Rohingya population has risen to more than 1.2 million, according to the latest estimation by the United Nations.

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