Long-Persecuted Rohingya Find Refuge, But Not Acceptance, In Bangladesh
Rohingya Muslims fleeing a recent crackdown in Myanmar are just the latest wave of refugees to arrive in Bangladesh. But patience is wearing thin in the impoverished country with scarce...
View ArticleCan You Still Have Hope When Life Seems Hopeless?
We interviewed Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and asked about their hopes for the future. We were shaken by their answers.(Image credit: Michael Sullivan/for NPR)
View ArticleBodies And Debris Found From Missing Myanmar Military Plane, Officials Say
The plane reportedly lost contact about 30 minutes after it took off from the coastal town of Myeik, bound for Yangon. It was carrying more than 100 people.(Image credit: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)
View Article'Where Would I Go?' Thousands Of Rohingya Flee Myanmar After A Bloody Week
Since a militant attack last week, the military has cracked down on the mostly Muslim minority, whom Myanmar doesn't consider citizens. More than 27,000 people have fled for Bangladesh.(Image credit:...
View Article'I Just Knew To Run To Save My Life': Nearly 125,000 Rohingya Flee Myanmar
Observers expect that number to grow. Myanmar's crackdown on the Muslim minority has prompted outrage around the world, including ire directed at its civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize...
View ArticleApparent 'Ethnic Cleansing' Is Now Unfolding In Myanmar, U.N. Says
Operations against the Rohingya look like a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," the U.N. human rights chief says. But Myanmar's civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, denies the...
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi To Skip U.N. Meeting As Criticism Over Rohingya Crisis Grows
The Myanmar leader has garnered international opprobrium for her handling of what the United Nations and watchdog groups say appears to be a genocide against the country's Muslim minority.(Image...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Children Caught In The Crossfire Of Rohingya Crisis
More than half the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are children. That presents a daunting challenge to aid workers.(Image credit: Tommy Trenchard/Caritas)
View ArticleBangladesh Copes With Chaos: Rohingya Refugees Are 'Coming And Coming'
Over 400,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in just the past three weeks. Aid agencies and the Bangladesh government are struggling to cope.(Image credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
View ArticleRohingya Refugees Pour Into Bangladesh, And Many Question A Militant Group's...
In August, a Rohingya militant group attacked Myanmar security forces, leading to retribution. Since then, hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh. Some believe the militants went too far.(Image...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Intimate Pictures Capture The Pain Of The Rohingya
Photographer Tommy Trenchard spent time in Bangladesh with refugees who have run for their lives.(Image credit: Tommy Trenchard/Panos Pictures)
View ArticleBoat Carrying Rohingya Refugees Capsizes Off Bangladesh
At least 12 people are dead and 30 others missing, many of them children. Meanwhile, the situation in refugee camps in Bangladesh grows dire.(Image credit: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/AP)
View ArticleFor Half A Million Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar, Bangladesh Is A Reluctant Host
Bangladesh is struggling to accommodate 500,000-plus Rohingya who have poured across the border in less than two months. It isn't recognizing them as refugees and would prefer to see them...
View ArticleAmid Rohingya Crisis, White House Mulls Sanctions On Myanmar's Military
The State Department says it is considering using the Global Magnitsky Act to freeze assets and deny visas for the country's top generals.(Image credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)
View ArticleU.N. Rights Chief: Myanmar's Treatment Of Rohingya Includes 'Almost ISIS-Type...
The violence includes "some of the most awful crimes we have ever seen," including beheadings and cutting children's throats, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein tells...
View ArticleHow Do You Help Refugees Who Are Too Traumatized To Talk?
That's the dilemma for health workers in Bangladesh as they try to treat the physical and mental health issues among the Rohingya who've fled violence in their homeland of Myanmar.(Image credit: Paula...
View ArticleU.S. Denounces Violence Against Rohingya As 'Ethnic Cleansing'
"Those responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement Wednesday. Targeted sanctions against Myanmar are a possibility. (Image credit:...
View ArticleMyanmar, Bangladesh Announce Tentative Deal To Repatriate Rohingya Refugees
Myanmar says it is ready to accept refugees back into the country, but many details of the deal are unclear.(Image credit: Wong Maye-E/AP)
View ArticlePope Arrives In Myanmar, But What Will He Say About The Rohingya?
Francis, on a visit to Yangon before traveling to Bangladesh later this week, hasn't said whether he will address the crisis described by the United Nations as "a textbook case of ethnic...
View ArticleIn Myanmar, Pope Calls For Unity And Tolerance, But Doesn't Mention Rohingya
Francis, on a visit to the Southeast Asian country, was advised against talking specifically about the persecuted Muslim minority for fear of causing a backlash against Myanmar's Christians.(Image...
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