Bangladesh

How Do You Help Refugees Who Are Too Traumatized To Talk?

3:47pm November 16, 2017

by Courtney Columbus

That's the dilemma for health workers in Bangladesh as they try to treat the physical and mental health issues among the Rohingya who've fled violence in their homeland of Myanmar.

Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh wait to receive food distributed by a Turkish aid agency at a refugee camp on Saturday.

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U.N. Rights Chief: Myanmar's Treatment Of Rohingya Includes 'Almost ISIS-Type Crimes'

3:14pm October 24, 2017

by Fatma Tanis

The violence includes "some of the most awful crimes we have ever seen," including beheadings and cutting children's throats, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein tells NPR.

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Bangladesh is struggling to accommodate 500,000-plus Rohingya who have poured across the border in less than two months. It isn't recognizing them as refugees and would prefer to see them repatriated.

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For Half A Million Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar, Bangladesh Is A Reluctant Host

4:00pm October 16, 2017

by Michael Sullivan

Bangladesh is struggling to accommodate 500,000-plus Rohingya who have poured across the border in less than two months. It isn't recognizing them as refugees and would prefer to see them repatriated.

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Rohingya children wait for food handouts at Thangkhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Thursday.

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Boat Carrying Rohingya Refugees Capsizes Off Bangladesh

9:21am October 09, 2017

by Scott Neuman

At least 12 people are dead and 30 others missing, many of them children. Meanwhile, the situation in refugee camps in Bangladesh grows dire.

Morzina, a 40-year-old Rohingya refugee from Tangbazar, Myanmar, winces in pain at the Sadar Hospital in the Bangladeshi town of Cox's Bazar. Soldiers from Myanmar's army smashed her in the ribs with a rifle butt as they raided her home in early September

PHOTOS: Intimate Pictures Capture The Pain Of The Rohingya

7:00am October 08, 2017

by Sasha Ingber

Photographer Tommy Trenchard shares stories from Rohingya refugees who have run for their lives.

Rohingya refugees arrive in Bangladesh on Sunday. They are fleeing government violence in Myanmar.

Bangladesh Copes With Chaos: Rohingya Refugees Are 'Coming And Coming'

2:46pm September 19, 2017

by Michael Sullivan

Over 400,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in just the past three weeks. Aid agencies and the Bangladesh government are struggling to cope.

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Mohamed Ayas, 15, was shot in the back by Myanmarese soldiers as he attempted to flee his village in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.

PHOTOS: Children Caught In The Crossfire Of Rohingya Crisis

8:26pm September 15, 2017

by Courtney Columbus

More than half the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are children. That presents a daunting challenge to aid workers.

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has insisted that unspecified "terrorists" and not the country's military are targeting the Muslim Rohingyas, who have been fleeing the country for weeks.

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Aung San Suu Kyi To Skip U.N. Meeting As Criticism Over Rohingya Crisis Grows

1:57pm September 13, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The Myanmar leader has garnered international opprobrium for her handling of what the United Nations and watchdog groups say appears to be a genocide against the country's Muslim minority.

Rohingya refugees embrace one another, finally reunited after a perilous journey by boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

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Apparent 'Ethnic Cleansing' Is Now Unfolding In Myanmar, U.N. Says

8:04pm September 11, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Operations against the Rohingya look like a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," the U.N. human rights chief says. But Myanmar's civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, denies the allegations.

Smoke and flames in Myamar are seen from the Bangladeshi side of the border on Sunday.

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'I Just Knew To Run To Save My Life': Nearly 125,000 Rohingya Flee Myanmar

6:30pm September 05, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Observers expect that number to grow. Myanmar's crackdown on the Muslim minority has prompted outrage around the world, including ire directed at its civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.