The United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) helping Burma conduct its first census in decades, expressed concern today over the omission of ethnic Rohingya in the national census.
Accusing the government of the going backwards on its word, the agency reported that census workers were walking away from houses that identified themselves ethnically as Rohingya.
The agency said that the government had provided assurances that everyone one in the country would be allowed to self-identify their ethnicity. However, on the eve of the census the presidential spokesman Ye Htut announced that anyone identifying as Rohingya would not be counted in the census.
See also:
Rohingya identity will not be accepted in Myanmar's national census (30 March 2014)
Accusing the government of the going backwards on its word, the agency reported that census workers were walking away from houses that identified themselves ethnically as Rohingya.
The agency said that the government had provided assurances that everyone one in the country would be allowed to self-identify their ethnicity. However, on the eve of the census the presidential spokesman Ye Htut announced that anyone identifying as Rohingya would not be counted in the census.
See also:
Rohingya identity will not be accepted in Myanmar's national census (30 March 2014)