5 years of misery: "The world seems to have forgotten the Rohingyas"

For the 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled a campaign of "genocide" in Myanmar, life in the world's biggest refugee camp is getting "worse, not better."

• Aug 25, 2022

Blinken declares Myanmar's repression of Muslim Rohingya a genocide

It is the eighth time since the Holocaust that the U.S. has made a genocide declaration.

• Mar 21, 2022

Rohingya latest

Close to 60 percent of the 589,000 Rohingya Muslims who have escaped Myanmar are children and teenagers. Our partners at BBC News are covering the humanitarian crisis across the border in Bangladesh. Clive Myrie reports.

• Oct 21, 2017
• 2:35

Rohingya crisis

Thousands of Rohingyan refugees continue to flee violence in Myanmar while nearly 600,000 Rohingya have crossed the border into Bangladesh. Some 15,000 are stranded there with limited food and water in overcrowded refugee camps. BBC News' Clive Myrie reports on the growing crisis.

• Oct 19, 2017
• 3:40

Rohingya crisis

Myanmar government soldiers are systematically burning down the villages of Rohingya Muslims and forcing refugees to cross the border into Bangladesh. Matt Wells, senior crisis adviser for Amnesty International, returned recently from the region and joins CBSN with the latest information.

• Oct 13, 2017
• 5:50

Rohingya insurgents

A Rohingya insurgent group in Rakhine state attacked police posts in Myanmar. The attack has sparked a brutal crackdown by the country's military and security forces. BBC News correspondent Jonathan Head traveled to the town where the attacks took place to find out more.

• Sep 28, 2017
• 3:55

Rohingya crisis

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar. Cindy Huang, senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, joined CBSN to break down international response to the crisis, and discuss how the private sector could get involved in helping crises worldwide.

• Sep 21, 2017
• 3:27

Myanmar's leader on Rohingya crisis

Burma's leader is defending her government against charges of ethnic cleansing. For the first time, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi addressed her country over accusations the military burned down hundreds of Rohingya Muslim villages. Jonah Fisher of our partners at BBC reports from the country's capital.

• Sep 19, 2017
• 1:36

Rohingya refugee crisis

U.N. leaders have called the violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state a clear example of ethnic cleansing. About 400,000 refugees from the Muslim Rohingya community have crossed the border into Bangladesh as the military torches Rohingya villages. BBC News South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt joined CBSN from the Myanmar-Bangladesh border with more on the crisis.

• Sep 15, 2017
• 6:02

Rohingya refugees injured

Nearly 400,000 Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since August 25

• Sep 12, 2017
• 3:59

Refugee camps

Hilltops and valleys become settlements as Rohingya refugees continue to arrive, looking for food and shelter

• Sep 6, 2017
• 2:24

Rohingya refugees

Boats filled with people come to shore as Rohingyas flee violence in neighboring Myanmar

• Sep 6, 2017
• 0:59

Uncertain future for refugees in India

Alleged ethnic persecution in Myanmar causes thousands to flee the country; "It's like hell in our state now," refugee says.

• May 9, 2017
• 1:52

Members of a Muslim minority in Burma, known as the Rohingya people, have been fleeing the country by sea in large numbers

Members of a Muslim minority in Burma, known as the Rohingya people, have been fleeing the country by sea in large numbers. As Bill Whitaker explains, for many Rohingya, a dangerous journey by sea is their only way to escape persecution.

• May 22, 2015
• 2:03

Huge fire kills at least 15 in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Witnesses said barbed wire fencing around the shanty city trapped some inside as flames tore through the sprawling camps in Cox's Bazar.

• Mar 24, 2021

At least 15 women and kids drown as Rohingya refugees' boat sinks

Aid worker says the deaths "should be a wake-up call for us all" about the desperation of thousands of refugees in Bangladesh camps.

• Feb 11, 2020

U.N. orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide

The world court order for what it calls "provisional measures" came in a case brought by the African nation of Gambia.

• Jan 23, 2020

International court to probe crimes against Rohingya

Prominent rights group said the decision will give fresh hope to victims that those responsible for brutal crimes will be brought to justice

• Nov 14, 2019

U.S. sanctions Myanmar generals over mass killings of Rohingya

The sanctions bar those targeted and their immediate families from traveling to the United States

• Jul 17, 2019

Myanmar frees Reuters reporters jailed for reporting on Rohingyas

Rights groups, Western governments, the U.N. and journalist associations alike had condemned their imprisonment; they won a Pulitzer in April

• May 7, 2019

Reuters reporters get 7-year terms in Myanmar "official secrets" case

Ruling is seen as instance of press crackdown amid widespread international condemnation of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims

• Sep 3, 2018

Reuters reporters face verdict in Myanmar "state secrets" case

Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been held in Yangon's Insein prison since December and could face 14 years if convicted

• Sep 3, 2018

Investigators call for genocide prosecutions over slaughter of Rohingyas

Investigation for UN human rights body finds crimes against Muslims in Myanmar "similar in nature, gravity and scope" to previous genocides

• Aug 27, 2018

Facebook's struggle with hate speech in Myanmar

"It led to riots. People died. I mean this really is a life and death situation"

• Aug 21, 2018

Myanmar groups accuse Facebook of failing to curb hate speech

Rights groups say the social-media giant hasn't stopped speech that incites violence against the Rohingya

• Apr 6, 2018

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