The Myanmar government does not recognize the Rohingya as an ethnic group with rights as citizens. Instead, they are branded as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Momen said Bangladesh has already ...

Rohingya refugees gather in Kutupalong camp to mark the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Myanmar military’s 2017 atrocities, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2019.

The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. Many have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017 to escape a military crackdown in the Southeast Asian country ...

Camps in Cox’s Bazar District are congested, and the Government of Bangladesh is relocating some of the refugees to Bhasan Char Island. Since December 2019, some 17,000 Rohingya refugees have been ...

A Rohingya refugee arrives wait at Thaingkhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui ...