Rohingya in China: seeds of a durable solution?

Buried in this article * about human rights in China is a one line mention that things are going swimmingly with the Rohingya in China.  Do I see the telltale signs of a solution?

On a provincial level, there are some positive signs. Yunan province has accepted 20,000 Rohingya Muslims refugees, fleeing the persecution of the Burmese junta. The group has been well-treated and has become one of the most prosperous minority groups within China.

The Rohingya Muslims now spreading out throughout Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh are agitating to be resettled in the US.   They are already in Europe and Canada and some may already be here in the midst of the Burmese Karen Christians coming to the US by the thousands.   Note we have a whole category about their campaign to find a durable solution in third country resettlement here.

Since things are going so well in China’s Yunan province, then maybe that is the answer!  The UN can resettle them to China!

* What’s up with this?  The article was there but it has completely disappeared!

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