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Rakhine State

Three young men sit closely together and look at a cell phone

Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia

Refugees

Mohamudul Hasson and Tobarik Huson, both Rohingya from Myanmar, met in Malaysia after taking arduous journeys to escape persecution and stagnation as stateless Muslim minorities. Neither Myanmar nor neighboring Bangladesh recognizes them as citizens.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar: Invest here, please. Don’t mind the insurgents.

a young Rohingya boy

‘A soldier cut off her breast:’ Rohingya survivors recount atrocities

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Grieving Rohingya survivors tell of massacre, escape and those left behind

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Myanmar military troops take part in a military exercise at Ayeyarwaddy delta region in Myanmar, February 3, 2018.

Myanmar’s government vows action against members of security forces connected to killing of Rohingya Muslims

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Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine State, Myanmar, Sept. 27, 2017.

Rohingya insurgents say they have no option but to fight Myanmar

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Rohingya insurgents said on Sunday they have no option but to fight what they called Myanmar state-sponsored terrorism to defend the Rohingya Muslim community.

Rohingya Muslim women look out from their home at Aung Mingalar quarter in Sittwe, Myanmar

Holocaust museum researcher finds early warning signs of genocide in Myanmar

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The plight of Rohingya migrants stranded at sea puts a spotlight on conditions in the country they fled. Staffers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum were on a fact-finding tour to Myanmar this spring and found what they call a genocide in the making. Andrea Gittleman, program manager for the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, says recent violence and persecution of Rohingya could be early warning signs of greater atrocities to come.

Salima, a Rohingya woman, talks to her husband, son and daughter, who are all being held by traffickers abroad, from an Internet hut in Thae Chaung village. She has to pay $600 and they discuss how to raise it.

The heartbreaking look of sadness and desperation on the faces of stateless Rohingyas

Justice

The Rohingyas Muslims in Myanmar are mostly stateless and living in grim conditions. Reuters photographer Minzayar visited one of the displaced Rohingya camps, where he documented them making connections with loved ones via a laptop at Internet huts.

Recent violence in Myanmar displaces thousands of Muslim minorities

Dozens of people have been killed in a month of violent clashes between Rohingya Muslims and Burmese Buddhists. Thousands more have fled their homes, seeking refuge in nearby towns and neighboring countries.