Topic - Rohingya

The Rohingya are an Indo-Aryan people from the state of "Rohang" officially known as Rakhine (Arakan) in western Myanmar (Burma). As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar. According to the UN, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Many Rohingya have fled to ghettos and refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, and to areas along the Thai-Myanmar border. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - In this image from a video, Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Feb. 2, 2021. A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed Saturday, May 18, 2024, to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government. The state’s Muslim Rohingyas, targets of deadly army-directed violence in 2017, appear to have been the main victims of fighting in the town of Buthidaung. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File)

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Indian police arrest 61 Rohingya Muslims this week

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In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 photo, Bangladesh military personnel check vehicles for Rohingya refugees on the road that connects refugee camps to the nearby tourist town of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled waves of attacks by Myanmar security forces and crossed the border into Bangladesh nearly a year ago. Despite months of discussions among Myanmar, Bangladesh, the United Nations and a string of aid agences, there are few signs that the Rohingya can go home anytime soon. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A year after fleeing Myanmar, Rohingya demand justice

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In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 photo, 15-year-old Rohingya refugee Abdullah Razzaq, speak on the phone to his mother who still lives in Myanmar, as his elder brother Abdur, 17, sits beside him at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. &quot;Mummy! Mummy!&quot; Razzaq shouted to his mother earlier this week in their once-a-week call, nearly a year after he and his brother, along with more than 700,000 other Rohingya Muslims, fled waves of attacks by Myanmar security forces and crossed the border into Bangladesh. &quot;Why don't you guys come here?&quot; (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Myanmar crackdown splits Rohingya with little hope of return

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Pope Francis meets Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Convention Centre of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. The pontiff is in Myanmar for the first stage of a week-long visit that will also take him to neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits ‘Rohingya’

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Pope Francis meets Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Pope Francis traveled to Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday to meet with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has come under increasing international criticism over a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that the U.N. and U.S. have termed a campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” (Max Rossi/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope Francis demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits ‘Rohingya’

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Rohingya Muslims stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh are desperate for scant basic resources and fights erupt over food and water. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Bangladesh truck carrying Rohingya Muslim aid crashes; 9 die

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A Myanmar navy boat with migrants onboard seen off Myanmar's Thameehla Island, south of Irrawaddy division, Bay of Bengal, Sunday, May 31, 2015. Myanmar’s navy detained journalists on Sunday trying to reach a boat anchored near a remote island where more than 700 migrants were being held after their ship was found drifting off the western coast. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Actor Matt Dillon puts rare celebrity spotlight on Rohingya

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Migrants sit on their boat as they wait to be rescued by Acehnese fishermen on the sea off East Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Hundreds of migrants stranded at sea for months were rescued and taken to Indonesia, officials said Wednesday, the latest in a stream of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to reach shore in a growing crisis confronting Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas)

Malaysia orders sea search-and-rescue for migrants

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