The Rohingya are a people of nowhere. They shouldn’t be abandoned.

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Opinion 

By Editorial Board

September 13 

Rohingya refugees at a camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 25. (Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters) 

TWO YEARS ago, Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown of fire and violence against the Muslim Rohingya population of Rakhine state in the western part of the country. In the attacks, which the United States has described as ethnic cleansing and U.N. investigators called possible crimes against humanity, civilians were killed, their villages burned to the ground and some 750,000 people fled for their lives.

Plight of Rohingya Muslims tied to Britain, Japan and World War II.

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Nearly one million Rohingya refugees are in Bangladesh. Photo / The Washington Post by Ismail Ferdous

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By: Jayita Sarkar analysis

Last month the United Nations and its partners appealed for US$920 million ($1.34 billion) to assist nearly one million Rohingya refugees now encamped in Bangladesh. These refugees are fleeing the violence in the northern part of the Rakhine state in Burma. That violence has been perpetrated by the Burmese military under the pretext that the Rohingya are not citizens of Burma, also known as Myanmar, but "resident foreigners" from Bangladesh who neither speak the Burmese language nor are part of Burma's myriad ethnic groups.

Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi could release 2 jailed journalists. She has not.

 

By Shibani Mahtani February 4 at 5:00 AM

Vice President Pence and Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi confer on the sidelines of the 33rd meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore in November. When Pence pushed for the pardon of two journalists accused of violating a colonial-era law on state secrets, Suu Kyi rebuffed him. The pair had been working on the investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya men during an army crackdown in 2017. (Bernat Armangue/AFP/Getty Images)

When Vice President Pence met with Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi at a major Asian summit in Singapore last November, they found themselves at odds over one issue in particular: the case of two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for investigating suspected atrocities.