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Among Rohingya, refugee squalor can seem better than home

Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:57:55

Both Bangladesh and Myanmar insist the upcoming repatriations of Rohingya Muslims will go smoothly, with thousands of refugees who fled their homes in terror just a few months ago crossing the border back into Myanmar and returning safely to their villages.

Myanmar says camps for Rohingya will be ready next week

Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:26:45

Myanmar officials say a camp to house Rohingya Muslim and Hindu refugees who return from Bangladesh will be ready by its promised deadline next week.

Myanmar, accused of crackdown, invited to U.S.-Thai military exercise

Sun Dec 24, 2017 08:40:55

Myanmar's crackdown on Muslim Rohingya from Rakhine state since August has caused around 650,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh in recent months.

Analysis: No sign Rohingya will be allowed to return home

Sun Dec 24, 2017 08:28:09

Myanmar reached an agreement with Bangladesh last month saying refugees would start returning home before Jan. 23, but experts believe there is no way that will happen.

Myanmar bars U.N. rights investigator just before visit

Wed Dec 20, 2017 15:49:48

U.N. special rapporteur was supposed to visit Myanmar in January to assess human rights across Myanmar, including abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.

6,700 Rohingya killed in first month of Myanmar violence: MSF

Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:48:19

Gunshot wounds were the cause of death in 69 percent of the cases, according to the survey.

THE REUTERS GRAPHIC-Risks grow for Rohingya in Bangladesh's teeming, squalid camps

Mon Dec 4, 2017 14:53:31

Bangladesh plans to allocate more land for camps housing Rohingya refugees as concerns grow over a possible outbreak of disease in crowded, makeshift settlements clustered at the country's southern tip.

Pope says he 'wept' while meeting Rohingya refugees

Sun Dec 3, 2017 08:05:54

Pope Francis on Saturday said he wept hearing the plight first-hand of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, adding that this meeting was a condition set for his trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Myanmar, Bangladesh sign Rohingya return deal - Myanmar official

Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:52:54

Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday, a senior Myanmar official told Reuters, for the return home of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled to the neighbouring country to escape a Myanmar army crackdown.

Rohingya refugees "drained" by trauma, says U.N. refugee chief

Wed Nov 22, 2017 13:57:46

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar have been "drained" by the trauma they suffered during the crisis and a struggle to overcome desperate want, the United Nations refugee chief said on Wednesday.

Returning Rohingya may lose land, crops under Myanmar plans

Sun Oct 22, 2017 14:09:59

Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to officials and plans seen by Reuters.

Rohingya plucked from river trying to swim to Bangladesh

Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:58:25

Bangladeshi coast guards plucked a group of Rohingya refugees from a border river Wednesday as they tried to escape Myanmar by using jerrycans as flotation devices, officials said.

Rohingya feel like prisoners in giant Bangladesh camp

Tue Oct 10, 2017 08:31:01

Hasina Begum's earliest memory is of watching the jungle cut down to expand the camp in Bangladesh that is the only home the 31-year-old Rohingya refugee has ever known.

At least 12 dead, scores missing in Rohingya capsize: officials

Mon Oct 9, 2017 07:49:26

At least 12 people died and scores were missing Monday after a boat packed with Rohingya refugees -- many of them children -- capsized, the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Bangladesh PM says government will continue to help Rohingya

Sat Oct 7, 2017 11:16:10

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government would continue to support nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims who have fled neighboring Myanmar to escape violence.

Bangladesh to press for Muslim refugees' return to Myanmar

Mon Oct 2, 2017 10:12:34

Bangladesh opens talks with neighboring Myanmar on Monday with the aim of securing the return home of more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, most of whom have arrived since late August.

Fear of epidemic disaster as disease stalks Rohingya camps

Sat Sep 30, 2017 09:32:22

Rashida Begum steers clear of the water pump near the reeking latrine shared by more than 100 families in a grim corner of Bangladesh that has grown into one of the world's largest refugee settlements in just weeks.

UN plans food aid for up to 700,000 Rohingya

Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:34:48

The UN has drawn up a contingency plan to feed up to 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar after some 480,000 fled to Bangladesh over the past month and arrivals continue.

Iran’s aid for Rohingyas reaches Bangladesh border with Myanmar

Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:32:49

Forty tons of Iran's relief aid has reached the Bangladesh border with Myanmar, where tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are stranded after fleeing what has been called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the UN.

UN to discuss Myanmar after Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing' claim

Tue Sep 12, 2017 09:47:15

The United Nations Security Council will hold an urgent meeting to discuss violence barrelling through western Myanmar, after the UN's rights chief warned that "ethnic cleansing" appeared to have driven the flight of over 300,000 Rohingya Muslims from the country.