Rohingya

Rohingya Muslim insurgents said on Sunday they have no option to fight what they called Myanmar state-sponsored terrorism to defend the Rohingya community, and they demanded that the Rohingya be consulted on all decisions affecting their...

A Rohingya man had fled Rakhine after the Myanmar military crackdown and had been living in a refugee camp in Teknaf ever since. The intelligence wing of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) of Chittagong has arrested...

On Christmas day it will be four months since the start of the influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh. Latest figures show 655,000 people have arrived in that period, bringing the estimated total number of Rohingya...

The 4 minute 13 second long documentary does not have any narration or dialogue, and was shot entirely by Josim on his smartphone. A documentary on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, titled “A Pair of Sandal,” has...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has praised Bangladesh’s efforts in “lending a hand” to Rohingya Muslims ahead of his two-day official visit to see the plight of the Burmese refugees. According to the itinerary of his...

The United Nations human rights chief has said an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims by state forces in Myanmar cannot be ruled out. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein was addressing a Human Rights Council session in Geneva....

In just three months an estimated 624,251 Rohingya refugees have crossed into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, fleeing violence and oppression in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State. Of these, over 1,800 have arrived in the past seven days. This...

Bangladesh has signed a deal with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown. No details have been released of the deal, which was signed by officials in the...

On Wednesday, the United States said the military operation that drove 620,000 Rohingya to seek sanctuary in neighboring, largely Muslim Bangladesh, amounted to “ethnic cleansing”, echoing an accusation first leveled by top U.N. officials in the...

With the arrival of approximately 618,000 newly displaced people from Myanmar since 25 August 2017, both refugees and host communities face widespread poverty and hunger, and critically high under-nutrition rates. Supported by the United Nations World...