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Consider the following pairs: Community sometimes mentioned in the news In the affairs ofCommunityCountryKurdBangladeshMadhesiNepalRohingyaMyanmarWhich of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

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The Madhesi, also referred to as Teraibasi Nepali, are an indigenous ethnic group of Nepalese people who are natives of the Madhesh plains of Southern Nepal in the Terai belt of South Asia. Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they have never obtained a permanent nation state. The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Many of their enemies refuse to acknowledge that the Rohingya are an ethnically distinct group. They claim instead that the Rohingya are Bengali and that their presence in Myanmar is the result of illegal immigration. The Rohingya, for their part, claim to be pre-colonial residents of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the Middle East Institute explains, with the earliest known appearance of the term Rohingya in 1799.