The United States officially recognized that the Myanmarese military committed crimes against humanity and genocide against the Rohingya people in 2017.
For Rohingya refugees displaced in Bangladeshi camps, conditions grow ever more dire as international aid dwindles, Rohingya social justice activist Yasmin Ullah reported during a webinar co-sponsored by HIAS and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on November 16.
August 25th marked a somber anniversary. A year ago, the military and armed militias in Myanmar began a coordinated campaign targeting the Rohingya in Rakhine State. More than 700,000 fled for their lives to neighboring Bangladesh. A new U,N. report calls for six military officials in Myanmar to be prosecuted on genocide charges.
To flee their home country, the Rohingya migrants of Southeast Asia pay steep prices for space aboard unseaworthy ships with dwindling food supplies and horrific sanitary conditions.
