The Rohingya’s right of no return
Source: The New York Times By David Scott Mathieson YANGON, Myanmar — Late last month, some 200,000 Rohingya living in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh gathered to mark the anniversary of the brutal […]
Rohingya crisis: Villages destroyed for government facilities
Source: BBC News By Jonathan Head Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. […]
Massacred at Home, in Misery Abroad, 730,000 Rohingya Are Mired in Hopelessness
Source: The New York Times By Hannah Beech When things go wrong, those in power often promise to make it right. But do they? In this series, The Times investigates to […]
Rohingya Muslims found stranded on Thai island: officials
Source: Reuters BANGKOK (Reuters) – A fishing boat carrying more than 60 Rohingya Muslims was found beached on an island in southern Thailand on Tuesday, officials said. The passengers – […]
Amnesty International Report Says Myanmar Military Is Again Committing War Crimes
Source: NPR By VANESSA ROMO Myanmar military units instrumental in the brutal push to drive out hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya from the mainly Buddhist nation have unleashed a […]
The Rohingya are not going home to Myanmar. Can Bangladesh cope?
Source: The Washington Post By Azeem Ibrahim March 20 Azeem Ibrahim is a director at the Center for Global Policy and author of “Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide.” Bangladesh is once again calling for […]
Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees’ plight ‘shames us all’
Source: Reuters By Poppy McPherson COX’S BAZAR (Reuters) – U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and condemned […]
‘I Had No Options’: The Rohingya Man Who Smuggled Himself
Source: The Atlantic By TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN The reporting for this article was supported by The Masthead, The Atlantic’s membership program. Learn more. YANGON, Myanmar—By Kamal’s own admission, his family used to be […]
India deports second Rohingya group to Myanmar, more expulsions likely
Source: Reuters By Zarir Hussain GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – India on Thursday deported a Rohingya Muslim family of five to neighboring Myanmar, the second such group expelled in four months […]
Point of No Return
Source: Reuters Having fled waves of violence, more than 900,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority now languish in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. A Reuters investigation has found the […]
Twitter CEO criticized for no mention of Rohingya plight in Myanmar tweets
Source: Reuters SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has come under fire for tweets about his meditation retreat in Myanmar and encouraging people to visit the country without mentioning […]
‘We can’t go anywhere’: Myanmar closes Rohingya camps but ‘entrenches segregation’
Source: Reuters By Thu Thu Aung, Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) – As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to […]
Rohingya: end of monsoon prompts fresh wave of boats fleeing Myanmar
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen, south-east Asia correspondent A new exodus of boats carrying Rohingya fleeing from Myanmar has begun, with at least six boats carrying hundreds of refugees intercepted at […]
Officials say boat carrying Rohingya Muslims lands in Indonesia
Source: Reuters BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities said a boat carrying 20 men believed to be Rohingya Muslims landed on the northeastern shore of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on […]
Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia
Source: Reuters BY Shoon Naing, Simon Lewi YANGON (Reuters) – Authorities in Myanmar have seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State and […]
Exclusive: Rohingya repatriation, relocation plans set to be pushed back to 2019 – government official
Source: Reuters By Zeba Siddiqui COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s plans to tackle the Rohingya refugee crisis are set to be stalled until the new year with repatriation and […]
Myanmar holds 106 Rohingya aboard boat to Malaysia, official says
Source: Reuters BY Shoon Naing, Simon Lewis KYAUKTAN, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar immigration authorities detained 106 Rohingya Muslims aboard a boat off Yangon on Friday, officials said, raising fears of a […]
Bangladesh admits no Rohingya willing to take repatriation offer
Source: The Guardian By Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Shaikh Azizur Rahmanand Michael Safi Bangladesh has conceded that it will be unable to voluntarily repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar as it had planned because it cannot […]
As India eases citizenship path for Hindus, Rohingya Muslims fear expulsion
Source: Reuters By Zeba Siddiqui JODHPUR/JAIPUR, India (Reuters) – Nar Singh can vividly recall the day in 2014 when Narendra Modi promised to provide refuge to Hindus suffering around the […]
First Rohingya Are to Be Returned to Myanmar Killing Grounds
Source: The New York Times By Hannah Beech BANGKOK — The United Nations doesn’t want it to happen. Dozens of rights groups say they are shocked. Even the people who […]