ARAKAN ROHINGYA SALVATION ARMY

Rohingya refugee cries next to her son, outside a temporary mosque at Kutupalong refugee camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh January 4, 2018. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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'Acts Of Genocide' Suspected Against Rohingya In Myanmar: U.N.
By Stephanie Nebehay, Simon Lewis, Reuters
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh since August.
UKHIYA, COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - 2017/11/14: Rohingya refugee childrens wait in front of a food distribution center at Thankhali Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia district, Coxsbazar Bangladesh on. More than 615,000 Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar Rakhine state violence since from 25 August 2017, most trying to cross the border and reach Bangladesh. (Photo by K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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It's Hard To Know Exactly What's Happening To Myanmar's Rohingya. So They Found Me.
By Wudan Yan
How social media provides a window into a human rights crisis.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - NOVEMBER 02: Rohingya Muslim refugees carry their children as they walk on an earthen berm after crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh near the Naf River on November 2, 2017 near Anjuman Para in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar's military that the United Nations has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. The refugee population continues to swell further, with thousands more Rohingya Muslims making the perilous journey on foot toward the border, or paying smugglers to take them across by water in wooden boats. Hundreds are known to have died trying to escape, and survivors arrive with horrifying accounts of villages burned, women raped, and scores killed in the 'clearance operations' by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs that were sparked by militant attacks on security posts in Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. What the Rohingya refugees flee to is a different kind of suffering in sprawling makeshift camps rife with fears of malnutrition, cholera, and other diseases. Aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the scale of need and the staggering number of them - an estimated 60 percent - who are children arriving alone. Bangladesh, whose acceptance of the refugees has been praised by humanitarian officials for saving lives, has urged the creation of an internationally-recognized 'safe zone' where refugees can return, though Rohingya Muslims have long been persecuted in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. World leaders are still debating how to confront the country and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who championed democracy, but now appears unable or unwilling to stop the army's brutal crackdown. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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Apartheid In Myanmar: Rohingya Muslims Trapped In 'Open-Air Prison,' Amnesty Says
By Jesselyn Cook
Rohingyas have endured decades of systematic discrimination by successive governments in Rakhine State.
Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, walks through muddy field after collecting aid from a distribution centre near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, October 2, 2017. The United Nations' humanitarian office said Thursday that the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh since Aug. 25 has topped 500,000.
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Burmese Expats Must Join The Chorus Of International Outrage Over The Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
By Khin Mai Aung, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
As an American civil rights lawyer who was born in Myanmar (or Burma, as I still call it), I watched with horror this summer
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Chilling Report Details Myanmar's Horrific Campaign Against Rohingya Minority
By Jesselyn Cook
More than 530,000 Rohingyas have fled the country in less than two months.
TEKNAFF, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 22: Rohingya Muslim women, fled from ongoing military operations in Myanmars Rakhine state, are seen at a makeshift camp in Teknaff, Bangladesh on September 22, 2017. Violence erupted in Myanmars Rakhine state on Aug. 25 when the countrys security forces launched an operation against the Rohingya Muslim community. It triggered a fresh influx of refugees towards neighboring Bangladesh, though the country sealed off its border to refugees. (Photo by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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The Rohingya And The Responsibility To Ignore
By John Feffer, Contributor
Director, Foreign Policy In Focus; Author, 'Aftershock: A Jour...
Human rights figure rather low on the Trump administration’s priorities.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's Speech On The Rohingya Crisis Was Unworthy Of Her Nobel Peace Prize
By Michael Shammas, Contributor
Writer & Lawyer
Imagine there were an ongoing humanitarian crisis — one approaching genocide — and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient repeatedly
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to deliver a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
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Is Aung San Suu Kyi In Denial?
By Evelyn Leopold, Contributor
Veteran UN correspondent
UNITED NATIONS – Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate kept under house arrest for 15 years, refused to acknowledge ethnic
People reach out during the distribution of bananas in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
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Rohingya Muslims Beg Myanmar Authorities For Safe Passage
“We’re terrified. We’ll starve soon and they’re threatening to burn down our houses,” one villager told Reuters.
A Rohingya woman walks in a refugee camp outside Kyaukpyu in Rakhine state, Myanmar May 18, 2017. Picture Taken May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
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The Assault On The Rohingya Is Not Only About Religion — It's Also About Land
By Saskia Sassen, Contributor
Sociology Professor, Columbia University; Author, "Expulsions:...
The burning of villages and eradication of Rohingya communities might have more to do with development projects funded by China than with religious prejudice.
Rohingya refugees walk to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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Myanmar Crisis Reaches Alarming New High
By Krishna N. Das, Reuters
Almost 400,000 Rohingya refugees have fled in the last two weeks.