REUTERS_6.5.96: ROHINGYAS IN TROUBL

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Subject: REUTERS_6.5.96: ROHINGYAS IN TROUBLE

	WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
WORLD DATELINES
	   BANGLADESH BURMA
	   COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, May 6 Reuter - More than 3,000 Burmese 
Muslims are estimated to have fled into Bangladesh over the past 
two months and 700 of them were sent back, Bangladeshi border 
guards said today.
	   The new influx began in early March with a boatload of Rohingya 
Muslims sailing across the Naf river, the guards said.
	   Bangladeshi officials said they did not know what had prompted 
the new influx.
	   Some 250,000 Rohingyas fled their homes in early 1992 to escape 
alleged persecution in Burma's Muslim-majority state of Arakan, 
bordering Bangladesh.
	   REUTER