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During the violence in 2012 Rohingya woman Nor Jan (54) has lost her white card, the one used for Rohingya to vote or to get permission for movement otherwise useless. As the 1982 citizenship law has been started to be implemented early 90s, the then military regime SLORC issued the new card called National Scrutiny Card (or NSC, pink card) in an exchange of the previous ID card called National Registration Card (or NRC, green card). However many Rohingya, who submitted NRC card, got issued white card instead of pink card. And also around the time of referendum for 2008 constitution and 2010 general election, authority massively issued white cards for Rohingya to encourage vote for their favor. (Photo © Lee Yu Kyung 2013)

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