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“You see the sign outside? International means every people. Every people shop here. No discrimination.”
- Kassim, Rohingya Refugee
DID YOU KNOW?
FacYusuf Iqbal, the owner of Mingala International Market, is an active community organizer and activist for human rights. He is one of the estimated 1,000 Rohingya refugees in Portland.
The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group from Myanmar, also known as Burma. They are considered “the most persecuted minority in the world” by the United Nations.
Learn more at The Immigrant Story .