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Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, in August. Myanmar's top court rejected their appeal Tuesday, letting their seven-year prison term stand.

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Reuters Journalists Jailed In Myanmar Lose Appeal, Will Stay In Prison

9:20am April 23, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were jailed for allegedly violating Myanmar's Official Secrets Act. They claimed they were framed by police after uncovering evidence of a massacre against Rohingya Muslims.

Rohingya refugees use a mock elephant during a training session on how to respond to elephant incursions at the Kutupalong refugee camp. The massive refugee camp sits in what used to be a migratory path for elephants moving between Myanmar and Bangladesh.

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Why Elephants Pose A Threat To Rohingya Refugees

2:15pm April 17, 2019

by Jason Beaubien

Several of the refugee camps in Bangladesh have had to set up what the U.N. calls a "tusk force" to respond when elephants enter.

Firewood is stacked for sale in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. Local residents complain that the Rohingya have cut down all the trees surrounding the camps and burned them in cooking fires.

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Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees

9:10am April 15, 2019

by Jason Beaubien

"We're being outnumbered by the sheer number of the refugee population," says Mohammad Abul Kalam, the head of Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission in Cox's Bazar.

Sodul Amin, 30, is one of tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who've gotten chickenpox since December. The highly contagious disease spreads easily in the overcrowded refugee camps.

Chickenpox, The Latest Burden On The Rohingya Refugees

2:03pm April 11, 2019

by Jason Beaubien

At the largest refugee camp in the world, Rohingya refugees and aid agencies face numerous challenges. Now they're also dealing with an outbreak of chickenpox.

Children play at a Rohingya refugee camp outside Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

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Rohingya Settle In For The Long Haul, Even As Bangladesh Wants Refugees To Go Home

9:18pm April 05, 2019

by Jason Beaubien

Bangladesh wants a million Rohingya refugees to go back to Myanmar. But 18 months after most of them fled violence, they are too afraid to go back and are making new lives for themselves in camps.

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Rohingya Hindu refugees stand outside their makeshift shelters at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in January. Bangladesh and Myanmar plan to begin the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled fro

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Rohingya Repatriation Set To Begin, As Amnesty Revokes Award To Aung San Suu Kyi

1:54pm November 12, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

A long-planned deportation of refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar is set to begin this week. Rohingya are reportedly fleeing refugee camps to avoid being sent back to the country they escaped.

the U.N. says the Rohingya are "the most persecuted minority in the world." Above, refugees cross a river to a temporary camp after crossing from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

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Running Around New York For The 'Most Persecuted Minority In The World'

3:56pm September 28, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Hassan Abedin is on the go at the U.N. General Assembly trying to get diplomats to focus on the plight of the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. "My Fitbit is just screaming," he says.

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ASEAN 2018 at the National Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'

7:16am September 13, 2018

by Lauren Frayer

Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has come under intense international criticism for her muted response to the army's campaign of terror against the Muslim minority.

In the Balukhali refugee camp, boys between the ages of seven and 11 play with forfori, homemade toy airplanes.

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In Bangladeshi Camps, Rohingya Refugees Try To Move Forward With Their Lives

5:46pm August 30, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Hundreds of thousands of refugees languish in the camps. UNICEF estimates that more than half the refugees are children. Some aid groups have warned that these children could become a lost generation.

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Myanmar border guard police patrol the fence in the "no man's land" zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state, during a government-organized visit for journalists on Aug. 24. A new U.N. report finds that Myanmar's military

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Myanmar's Military Leaders Should Be Tried For Genocide, U.N. Investigators Say

2:52pm August 27, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

A new report on the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims suggests six Myanmarese commanders be prosecuted. Investigators also say civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi did nothing to stop the attacks.