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
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
Jul 24 Watch 7:18 Myanmar's Rohingya stuck in limbo between persecution and relocation By PBS News Hour The Rohingya people, an ethnic Muslim minority group, have fled murder and persecution by the army of Myanmar to seek refuge in camps in Southern Bangladesh, but their arrival has been less than welcome. Special correspondent Tania Rashid reports. Continue watching
May 31 Watch 2:53 News Wrap: Rohingya Muslim refugee camps devastated by cyclone By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, a tropical cyclone that tore through southern Bangladesh has left thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees in ruined camps. Having fled persecution in Myanmar, many have lost what little they had when the storm hit. Also,… Continue watching
Oct 07 Obama orders U.S. economic sanctions on Myanmar lifted By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press President Barack Obama on Friday lifted U.S. economic sanctions on the former pariah state of Myanmar, the culmination of years of rapprochement that Obama has worked to facilitate. Continue reading