Rohingya in a sentence

We understand there are some issues that need to be addressed in regards to the Rohingya refugees here but this is not the best way to resolve it as it led to more abuses and harassment towards the Rohingya.

In addition to driving over one million Rohingya to flee their homes and seek refuge in Bangladesh, there were countless accounts of atrocities, including systematic killings of some 10,000 Rohingya men, women, children and newborns.

The Myanmar military has also reportedly reached an informal “peace” pact with the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, an older Rohingya armed group that has reemerged as a force in recent months.

The refugees gathered in an open field at Kutupalong camp in the Cox’s Bazar district, carrying banners and festoons reading “Hope is Home” and “We Rohingya are the citizens of Myanmar”, defying the rain on what has been designated Rohingya Genocide Day.

Under Bangladesh law, Rohingya are not legally allowed to have SIM cards, and in September 2019, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission directed mobile phone carrier companies to stop selling to Rohingya.

So when the Myanmar military abuses the Rohingya women we also show our solidarity, because we know that the Myanmar military has been abusing other ethnic women—Karen, Kachin, Shan, Ta’ang—and now they are abusing the Rohingya women.

The commission recommended that the government end enforced segregation of Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, ensure full humanitarian access, tackle Rohingya statelessness, “revisit” the 1982 Citizenship Law and punish perpetrators of abuses.

The long-simmering Rohingya crisis exploded on Aug. 25, 2017, when Myanmar’s military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group.

The Myanmar government does not use the term “Rohingya” and does not recognize the people as an official ethnicity, which means the Rohingya are denied citizenship and effectively rendered stateless.

The Rohingya Human Rights Network is planning a rally against the violence for "Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day" on Parliament Hill at 2 p.m. Sunday.

A high-ranking United Nations official says attacks on Rohingya Muslims appear to be continuing in Myanmar and it is not yet safe for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh to begin returning to their homes.

Regardless of these positive steps, constructive engagement with Myanmar to acknowledge Rohingya as citizens and end the ongoing and systematic discrimination against Rohingya should be pursued relentlessly.

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Still, he is the only Rohingya in his class and sometimes has problems with Buddhists when he describes himself as Rohingya.

The Nobel laureates came to Bangladesh on Saturday and began the visit to the Rohingya camps to assess the allegation of violence against Rohingya women and the overall refugee situation.

The Rohingya crisis erupted after Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts on Aug. 25 in Rakhine triggered a fierce military response that the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing.

In 2007 the international movement to defend women's human rights issues in Myanmar was said to be gaining speed. citation Genocide allegations and crimes against Rohingya people Rohingya people of Myanmar displaced by decades long human rights abuses.

All of them were refugees from the Kutupalan Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh.

A military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh, with harrowing stories emerging of murder, rape and arson.

Bangladesh has opened its arms and welcomed nearly one million Rohingya refugees.