YANGON, Myanmar—Census takers in Myanmar aren't collecting data from anyone identifying themselves as Rohingya Muslim, underscoring deep ethnic tensions clouding the country's first census in three decades and prompting condemnation by a United Nations group.
What Rohingyas should be called in the census being completed this week is a heated issue. Buddhist monks and residents in 13 towns across Rakhine state held protests last month to oppose the use of "Rohingya" in the census, saying it would legitimize the...
http://www.information.myanmaronlinecentre.com/un-group-criticizes-myanmar-over-census/
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