Oct 22 Watch 3:37 Myanmar Buddhists protest repatriation of Rohingya By PBS News Hour In Myanmar, hundreds of Buddhists this weekend protested the government's suggestion that it might take back the nearly 600,000 minority Muslims known as the Rohingya, who have fled into Bangladesh amid killings by government soldiers since late August. Farah Kabir,… Continue watching
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 18 Tillerson: ‘Heartbreaking’ reports of suffering in Myanmar By Matthew Lee, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning reported atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and he says those responsible — perhaps the country's military — will be held accountable. Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch 4:43 More than 500,000 Rohingya flee from rape, fire and murder in Myanmar By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch 7:06 What can stop the extreme violence against Rohingya Muslims? By Travis Daub The mass exodus from Myanmar continues for Rohingya Muslims, who are fleeing what the U.N. has called “a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.” Judy Woodruff speaks with Eric Schwartz of Refugees International and Daniel Russel of Asia Society about the… Continue watching
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