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“The prime minister wants to stress that the Rohingya migration issue is
important to the government and Thailand has worked with other countries on
this issue continuously,” Lieutenant General Werachon Sukondhapatipak, the
government spokesman, told reporters.>Myanmar regards the Rohingya as illegal
migrants from the Indian subcontinent and has confined tens of thousands to
sprawling camps in Rakhine state segregated from the Buddhist Rakhine
population since violence swept the area in 2012.>The unrest prompted tens of
thousands of Rohingya to flee Myanmar by sea, an exodus that peaked in 2015
when an estimated 25,000 people crossed the Andaman Sea for Thailand,
Malaysia, and Indonesia, many drowning in unsafe and overloaded boats>More
than 700,000 Rohingya fled into Bangladesh in 2017 after a crackdown by the
Myanmar’s army, according to U.N. agencies.