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Bangladesh Calls for Global Support for Myanmar Rohingyas

The Bangladesh Prime Minister has called on world leaders to pressure Myanmar's government to take back tens of thousands of recently arrived Rohingya Muslim refugees.

The Bangladesh Prime Minister has called on world leaders to pressure Myanmar's government to take back tens of thousands of recently arrived Rohingya Muslim refugees. The UN's refugee agency says thirty-five-thousand refugees have arrived in the past twenty-four hours.

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(Photo: Rohingya refugees. Credit: Getty Images).

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Tue 5 Sep 201712:06GMT

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