Rohingya refugees

In this handout aerial photo taken on June 19, 2019 and released on October 21 by Mukta Dinwiddie MacLaren Architects shows buildings intended to accomodate members of the Rohingya refugee community on the silt islet Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal. Photo: AFP
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29 November 2019
UN offers to assess Bangladesh’s refugee island plan
This handout picture taken on June 11, 2019 and released by Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) on June 12 shows a boat, which was carrying a group of Rohingya Muslims, at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand. Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/AFP
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14 June 2019
Thai captain of shipwrecked refugee boat charged...
A Thai boat captain has been charged with smuggling 65 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar,...
This handout picture taken on June 11, 2019 and released by Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) on June 12 shows a group of Rohingya Muslims sitting on the sand at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand. Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/AFP
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13 June 2019
65 refugees found shipwrecked in Thailand
A group of 65 Rohingya Muslims have been found on a shipwrecked boat off the coast of...
A general view of a Rohingya refugees' makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA
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29 May 2019
Desperate refugees caught on cross-border...
Growing numbers of Rohingya refugees are risking their lives by crossing the closed...
Bangladesh authorities prevented 84 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar from attempting a perilous boat journey to Malaysia. Photo: AFP
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20 May 2019
Bangladesh stops 84 refugees from perilous sea...
Bangladesh authorities prevented 84 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar from attempting a...
A Rohingya refugee family are interviewed by a UNHCR registration officer at Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh. Photo: Will Swanson/UNHCR
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18 May 2019
Some 250,000 Rohingya refugees receive first ID...
The UN said Friday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh,...
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Photo: EPA
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10 April 2019
Pompeo meets with Bangladeshi counterpart on ties...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has met here with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul...
Rohingya refugees, who landed on an isolated northern shore near the Malaysia-Thai border, huddle in a group in Kangar on March 1, 2019, following their detention by Malaysian immigration authorities. Photo: Ismael Kamaldin/AFP
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09 April 2019
Refugees arrive in Malaysia, more believed at sea
Forty-one Rohingya were found in northern Malaysia Monday, police said, the second group...
(FILE) - Rohingya refugees gather near a fence at the 'no man's land' zone at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 24 August 2018. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
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16 February 2019
UN seeks $920 million aid for Rohingya refugees...
The United Nations on Friday called for $920 million in aid for around a million Rohingya...
(File) A Rohingya Muslim man prepares a vegtable cart to sell, in a makeshift settlement in Madanpur Khadar, in New Delhi, India, 22 August 2017. Photo: Rajat Gupta/EPA
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17 January 2019
Refugee exodus from India to Bangladesh hits 1,...
At least 1,300 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from India since the start...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press at the State Department in Washington, DC, on December 13, 2018. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
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14 December 2018
US House of Representatives accuses Myanmar of ‘...
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Thursday calling...
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Photo: Prakash Singh/AFP
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13 December 2018
Twitter CEO defends controversial Myanmar tweets
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended a series of tweets about his recent...
This file photo taken on November 30, 2018 shows Myanmar Navy personnel escorting a group of Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state after they were caught fleeing on a boat. Rohingya Muslims who paid hundreds of dollars to flee squalid Myanmar camps by boat are destitute since they were stopped at sea and returned, the UN refugee agency told AFP on December 7. Photo: AFP
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08 December 2018
Rohingya sent back to Myanmar camps hungry and in...
Fleeing Rohingya Muslims sold ration books to help pay hundreds of dollars to traffickers...

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