Concern grows over Myanmar's census
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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
There is concern and criticism over Myanmar's first census in more than 30 years. The nationwide survey asks people to define their ethnicity and religion. The last census was conducted in 1983. Since then the population has grown to around 60 million people - most of them Buddhists. But the survey is not recognising the Rohingya - the Muslim group that says it is being persecuted in Myanmar. And census takers have been barred from rebel-controlled areas. Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports.
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