Rohingya refugees denied access to mobile phones in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh by Sultan Mahmud Mukut / SOPA Images
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulator Commission has ordered mobile phone operators to ensure in seven days that the Rohingya refugees do not get access to mobile phones. The move follows an outbreak of violence in recent weeks at the camps, most of whose residents fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine State two years ago following a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.
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