As thousands of members of the persecuted minority flee Myanmar and Bangladesh on rickety boats, the rest of Southeast Asia is showing a distinct reluctance to take them in.
An investigation into Myanmar's state-orchestrated murder of thousands of Rohingya Muslims — and the second tragedy unfolding in the refugee camps
Sayeda Begum fled to a Bangladesh refugee camp along with hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya women after a traumatic childbirth near her home in Myanmar.
A Rohingya refugee is helped from a boat as she arrives at Shah Porir Dwip, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
BIREUEN: Sebanyak tiga bot dengan lebih 500 pelarian Rohingya berlabuh di bahagian paling barat wilayah Aceh, semalam, sekali gus menjadi ketibaan terbesar golongan itu di negara ini. Jurucakap pihak berkuasa Indonesia, Faisal rahman berkata satu daripada tiga bot itu tiba di daerah Bireuen dengan membawa 256 orang Rohingya, manakala 239 lagi tiba di Pidie dan
Award-winning photographer Robin Hammond says survivors of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar carry deep psychological scars
The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and the World Food Program (WFP) signed an agreement in this regard at the ministry
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We can't allow such mass atrocities to become normalized.
The Rohingya are stateless. While this is a widely known and uncontroversial fact, it has not been adequately factored into…
In August 2017, the world witnessed a massive influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar. As of now, Bangladesh hosts more than 1.3 million Rohingyas, predominantly in Cox's Bazar district, which has become the largest refugee settlement in the world. While the Bangladesh government and international aid organizations have made commendable efforts to provide for these displaced people, the situation has reached a breaking point, especially due to the political instability in Myanmar.
In Bangladesh, 60 Rohingya babies are born without legal citizenship each day.
In the Rohingya-free Rakhine province, the Rakhine group now enjoys a majority of around 80%. This situation has heightened the Rakhine nation's dream of an independent country. The Myanmar Army likely made a strategic mistake by expelling the Rohingyas
Fears of future blazes after health, learning and religious facilities also destroyed in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
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Bangladesh has showed unusual generosity in the face of one of the largest and most prolonged humanitarian crises in the world. It has been providing food and shelter for over a million Rohingya Muslims since 2017. However, the situation is worsening considerably for a number of reasons.
Residents in Indonesia's Aceh province are protesting the influx of Rohingya, who are fleeing squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh, arriving on their shores.
International courts are still investigating the killing of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority by Myanmar's military in 2017, which the United States has
Rohingya refugees arrive in Bangladesh by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf, Bangladesh. Copyright Reuters
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh welcomed Monday’s announcement by the United States that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide.
Visiting Minister of International Department of the Communist Party of China Liu Jianchao on Monday said his country is committed and is working with Myanmar on how to improve the situation there to facilitate return of the Rohingyas. &l
Yorkshire city with Europe’s biggest Rohingya community urged to offer haven for those fleeing crackdown in Myanmar
The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on thousands of hours of interviews and testimony from the Rohingya themselves to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster. Casting new light on Rohingya identity, history and culture, this will be an essential contribution to the study of the Rohingya people and to the study of the early stages of genocide. This book adds convincingly to the body of evidence that the government of Myanmar has enabled a genocide in Rakhine State and the surrounding areas. 10 bw illus
A chickenpox outbreak in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps has raised a public health concern in the region, officials say.
On the occasion of World Refugee Day 2024, an inter-agency photo exhibition entitled ‘RESILIENCE’ kicked off in Cox’s Bazar Cultural Centre on Wednesday evening. The exhibition portrays the res
Više desetina tisuća Rohinja bježe od diskriminacije i etničkog nasilja u njihovoj domovini – Mjanmi. Kao takvi su lak plijen beskrupuloznim trgovcima ljudima. Dvije preživjele osobe su nam ispričale svoje priče.
The Rohingya crisis is a harrowing tale of persecution and violence faced by the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. Since gaining independence from colonial
Southeast Asia's refugee crisis has even raised the specter of genocide.
The Kutupalong and Nayapara camps in Cox’s Bazar, on the southeastern tip of Bangladesh, are plagued by violence and dwindling funding
At least nine people, including seven Rohingyas, were killed in landslides, while another Rohingya died after the wall of his house collapsed on him, due to torrential rain in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya yesterday morning.
Nearly seven years after the Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help.
As many as 12,000 children may be fleeing to Bangladesh each week
UN warns of humanitarian disaster as ethnic Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma and Bangladesh attempt to enter Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
Image 3 of 37 from gallery of Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre / Rizvi Hassan. Photograph by Rizvi Hassan
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