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'Pray floods don't kill us': The Rohingya's remote Bangladesh island

Asia Pacific Dec 30, 2020

'Pray floods don't kill us': The Rohingya's remote Bangladesh island

Some 100,000 Rohingya refugees are being moved to the island of Bhasan Char, despite opposition from human rights groups.

'What choice do we have?': Rohingya women face odyssey of misery

Asia Pacific Dec 23, 2020

'What choice do we have?': Rohingya women face odyssey of misery

As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometers away in Malaysia.

Rohingya trafficking network sells dreams but delivers violence and extortion

Asia Pacific Dec 16, 2020

Rohingya trafficking network sells dreams but delivers violence and extortion

Hundreds looking to escape a Bangladesh refugee camp are believed to have died at sea from beatings, starvation or dehydration.

How a human rights angel lost her halo

Asia Pacific | FOCUS Nov 16, 2020

How a human rights angel lost her halo

by Hannah Beech

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has turned into an apologist for the very generals who once locked her up, downplaying their murderous campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Myanmar vote ban extinguishes hope for ethnic minorities

Asia Pacific Oct 25, 2020

Myanmar vote ban extinguishes hope for ethnic minorities

More than a million people in Rakhine state, and hundreds of thousands more elsewhere, will be disenfranchised.

Anti-Rohingya hate spreads unchecked on Facebook in Malaysia

Asia Pacific Oct 14, 2020

Anti-Rohingya hate spreads unchecked on Facebook in Malaysia

by Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi

Six months after rights groups reported the material to the social media giant, many xenophobic posts targeting Rohingya in Malaysia remained on the platform.

As Myanmar erases names of destroyed Rohingya villages, U.N. map-makers follow suit

Asia Pacific Sep 12, 2020

As Myanmar erases names of destroyed Rohingya villages, U.N. map-makers follow suit

by Poppy Mcpherson

On maps produced in 2020 by the U.N. mapping unit in Myanmar, which it says are based on Myanmar government maps, the site of the destroyed village is now nameless.

‘Kill all you see’: For first time, Myanmar soldiers tell of Rohingya slaughter

Asia Pacific Sep 9, 2020

‘Kill all you see’: For first time, Myanmar soldiers tell of Rohingya slaughter

by Hannah Beech, Saw Nang and Marlise Simons

The atrocities described by the two men echo evidence of serious human rights abuses gathered from among more than 1 million Rohingya refugees.

Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

Asia Pacific / Politics Aug 25, 2020

Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship. His father was a civil servant. But when the country goes to the polls in November, the businessman will not ...

Local virus outbreak in Myanmar sparks fears for Rohingya camps

Asia Pacific / Science & Health Aug 23, 2020

Local virus outbreak in Myanmar sparks fears for Rohingya camps

Authorities visited the Thae Chaung camp this week to talk about social distancing — an impossibility as multiple families typically squeeze into a single house.

As other doors close, some Rohingya cling to hope of resettlement

Asia Pacific Aug 21, 2020

As other doors close, some Rohingya cling to hope of resettlement

On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and plastic shelters in refugee camps. Two attempts to get a repatriation process going, in 2018 ...

Asia Pacific Jun 28, 2020

Thousands in western Myanmar flee as army plans operations, monitors say

Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned "clearance operations” against insurgents, a lawmaker and a humanitarian group said. But a government spokesman said late on Saturday an evacuation ...

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