"Rohingya citizenship: now or never?"

Burma Briefing 

"I don’t want the world to forget"

How photographs help bring the plight of the Rohingya refugees to light

Dhaka-born Saikat Mojumder has been a photographer for more than ten years. He was one of the first photographers to document the Rohingya emergency after the massive arrival of refugees across the Myanmar border in August 2017, and has since returned on several occasions to cover the crisis for the World Food Programme (WFP).

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"Documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis – in pictures" - Kevin Frayer

More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar’s military which the United Nations has called ‘a textbook example of ethnic cleansing’.

"Rohingya children left stranded amid garbage and muck in Myanmar"

UN warns of ‘toxic fear’ among tens of thousands of children trapped in Rakhine state, some of whom have become separated from their parents

"Myanmar/Bangladesh: MSF surveys estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the attacks in Myanmar"

Surveys conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in refugee settlement camps in Bangladesh estimate that at least 9,000 Rohingya died in Myanmar, in Rakhine state, between 25 August and 24 September. As 71.7% of the reported deaths were caused by violence, at least 6,700 Rohingya, in the most conservative estimations, are estimated to have been killed, including at least 730 children below the age of five years.

A detailed overview of results from the surveys is available

"Rohingya Exodus Is a “Major Global Humanitarian Emergency”

IPS Correspondent Naimul Haq interviews WILLIAM LACY SWING, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

"'The Darkness of Humans’: Investigating Mass Rape in Burma"

The Burmese military is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State. Scores of people have been murdered and hundreds of villages destroyed, and more than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh. One of the military’s most feared weapons is mass sexual violence, with untold numbers of women and girls brutally gang raped by government soldiers. Human Rights Watch’s emergencies women’s rights researcher, Skye Wheeler, tells Stephanie Hancock how she was able to investigate these disturbing crimes.

"Tensions over Rohingya return highlight donor dilemmas" - Gwen Robinson

Moves to redistribute northern Rakhine land complicate refugee return plans