Tag: Rohingya

Volunteers from the Muslim Aid and Relief Society who are collecting field data said most of the dead were children, pregnant women and the elderly

The Rohingya are widely viewed in Myanmar as interlopers from Bangladesh, despite roots in the country stretching back centuries

The drop has already caused hardship among the roughly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps

Four vessels carrying Rohingya refugees have already landed in Indonesia in November and December last year

Among the emaciated refugees who survived the harrowing voyage, some were so malnourished they could barely walk

Each year thousands of Rohingya risk their lives on long, expensive sea journeys in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

"The delay in rescuing these boats has already caused untold suffering and loss of life,” said said Charles Santiago, chairperson of APHR

Roughly two-thirds of Rohingya couples are now using some form of birth control -- up from virtually none five years ago

The government plans to evacuate about 2.5 million people from the most vulnerable areas in the path of the storm before the cyclone hits

Much has changed in the time since he and 750,000 other members of the stateless Muslim minority escaped neighboring Myanmar