Monsoon Rains Threaten Rohingya Refugees
Bottom Line: As monsoon season bears down on Southeast Asia, U.S. officials say up to a 100,000 Rohingya refugees sheltering in the hills of Bangladesh […] More
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Tentative Deal May See Myanmar’s Rohingya Go Home—But To What?
Are Bangladesh and Myanmar poised to make progress to address the refugee crisis involving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya? Maybe. Access all of The […] More
Tillerson: Myanmar Guilty of “Ethnic Cleansing”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Myanmar is guilty of “ethnic cleansing” in its crackdown on minority Muslim Rohingya, driving more than half a million […] More
Miliband: Rohingya Survival Demands Long Term Global Effort
The Cipher Brief spoke with David Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and former British Foreign Secretary, about how the international community should […] More
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Rohingya Suffering Feeds Extremist Message Worldwide
A major humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Myanmar, as tens of thousands of people, the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, flee the threat of ethnic cleansing […] More
A New Dimension in Myanmar
October’s attacks on the Border Guard Police bases by the insurgent group Harakah al-Yaqin (HaY) in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and their aftermath have raised concerns […] More
ISIS or al Qaeda Unlikely to Expand in Myanmar
The struggle of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is a regular topic of discussion on jihadist online message boards, frequently cited as the ultimate case of persecution […] More
Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis – Fertile Ground for Jihadis in Southeast Asia?
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has largely disappeared from the news since its military junta was replaced by a relatively reformist government after 2015 elections, […] More