Ayas, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee who teaches Burmese to children in the camps, tells The Independent that he and thousands like him are now united in their struggle against the Myanmar ...
Described as the world’s most persecuted people, 1.1 million Rohingya people live in Myanmar. They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades.
The U.S. government has confirmed it would provide $73 million in new financial aid for Rohingya refugees through the United ...
This time, however, he was not escaping the “raining bullets” that had killed his father – he was going back to train and fight against those responsible for his people’s bloody exodus from Myanmar.
Jununi, a Pakistani-born Rohingya who grew up in Mecca, leads a group that has conducted attacks on officials in Myanmar as part of what it describes as “a defensive war with the brutal Burmese ...
Then a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s army sent hundreds of thousands fleeing into Bangladesh. Driven from their homes, many of the Rohingya have since lived in refugee settlements entirely ...
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution outlining the framework for a high-level conference on the plight of the Rohingya and other minority groups in Myanmar. Sponsored by ...
"Being Rohingya is hard," she said. "But being a transgender Rohingya is even harder." Tanya, 25, left Myanmar in 2017 with hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya Muslim refugees escaping a ...
The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighbouring Bangladesh this week and charged under an anti-terrorism law. Ataullah, an ...
Funding cuts set to worsen hunger at Bangladesh Rohingya camps Cox's Bazar camps could see surge in crimes, refugees fear Around 300,000 refugees affected by healthcare disruptions KUTUPALONG ...
where there are more than 1 million Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Security officials in ...
Frustration runs high in sprawling camps of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the ...