Tag: Rohingya

Rohingyas, an ethnic minority group predominantly Muslim, faced a genocide in 2017 that forced over 740,000 to flee to Bangladesh

Volunteers from the Muslim Aid and Relief Society said most of the dead were children, pregnant women and the elderly

The Rohingya are widely viewed in Myanmar as interlopers from Bangladesh, despite roots in the country stretching back centuries

The drop has already caused hardship among the roughly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps

Four vessels carrying Rohingya refugees have already landed in Indonesia in November and December last year

Each year thousands of Rohingyas risk their lives on long, expensive sea journeys in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

Roughly two-thirds of Rohingya couples are now using some form of birth control -- up from virtually none five years ago

Much has changed in the time since he and 750,000 other members of the stateless Muslim minority escaped neighboring Myanmar

Today there are nearly a million Rohingya -- half of them under 18 -- in rickety huts in camps

The report singles out the two countries for their repression of mostly Muslim Uyghurs and Rohingya