By Emily Fishbein
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Chicago has one of the largest Rohingya refugee populations in the country. This is one survivor’s story.
Ismail’s family was among the first Rohingya to reach Chicago in 2012.
Anjali Pinto
Anjali Pinto
In September 2017, Muhammad Habib Ismail joined fellow Rohingya Muslims on a march through downtown Chicago. The march, organized by the Rohingya Cultural Center, was to protest the Myanmar military's campaign of rape, arson, and killing of Rohingya in northern Rakhine State, which UN investigators found to have been carried out "with genocidal intent."