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Rohingya refugees rebuilding their lives in Chicago

Published by Rohingya Cultural Center on March 8, 2020March 8, 2020

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Chicago has one of the largest number of Rohingya refugees to have been resettled in the United States.

More than 1,600 Rohingya are based in Chicago, having spent years in Malaysia after fleeing persecution and violence in Myanmar in the 1990s and 2000s.

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