Dec 12 WATCH LIVE: New York City police give the latest on Monday subway bombing By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press NEW YORK — A would-be suicide bomber was held Tuesday on state terrorism charges while federal prosecutors prepared their own case in the rush hour blast in the heart of the New York City subway system that failed to cause… Continue reading
Dec 01 Pope Francis apologizes to Rohingya for ‘indifference of the world’ By Larisa Epatko “The presence of God today is also called ‘Rohingya,’” Pope Francis said while meeting with members of the the Muslim minority in Bangladesh. Continue reading
Nov 22 What’s being done to help the Rohingya? By Layla Quran U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state "constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya." We asked experts take a look at what’s being done to address the situation, and what’s next. Continue reading
Oct 20 WATCH: Rohingya walk through rain, muddy rice fields to reach Bangladesh By Larisa Epatko U.N. drone footage caught part of the Rohingya refugees' precarious journey to Bangladesh. Continue reading
Oct 18 As Rohingya refugees continue to flee from persecution, here’s how you can help By Jennifer Hijazi More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes since August to escape systematic violence at the hands of government soldiers in Myanmar. The U.N. has called the actions taken by Myanmar forces against the group “a textbook… Continue reading
Oct 12 How a Rohingya mother escaped her village’s terrors in Myanmar By Tania Rashid “They started looting everything. We ran outside and before we knew it we watched our village set ablaze,” said Dildar Begum, one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh. Continue reading
Sep 20 U.S. to give $32 million for Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees By Josh Lederman, Associated Press NEW YORK — The United States will contribute nearly $32 million in humanitarian aid to help Rohingya Muslim refugees, the State Department said Wednesday, in the Trump administration's first major response to the mass exodus from Myanmar. Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 9:54 Flooding into Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees flee harrowing violence By PBS News Hour Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the past three weeks after suffering violent attacks by Myanmar troops and Buddhist vigilantes. The sudden influx of Rohingyas is causing tensions with local Bengalis, who fear becoming the… Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch 2:49 More than 400,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh By PBS News Hour About 400,000 Rohingya, members of a Muslim minority group, have fled majority-Buddhist Myanmar into Bangladesh during the last month. The wave began when Myanmar's military cracked down on an armed resistance by the Rohingya minority, who have long been persecuted… Continue watching
Sep 06 Rohingya refugees, caught in crosshairs, flood into Bangladesh By Larisa Epatko “We are running out of space in the existing settlements and new arrivals are pitching camp wherever they can erect some plastic sheeting to protect themselves from the elements,” said Sarat Dash of the International Organization for Migration. Continue reading