Aug 22, 2024 · Most are settled in and around Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar region — some of the largest and most densely populated camps in the world. Humanitarian aid is critical, with 95 percent of Rohingya households in Bangladesh dependent on humanitarian assistance.

Nov 14, 2024 · COX’S BAZAR and DHAKA, Bangladesh — The 16-year-old Rohingya boy said he was kidnapped from southeastern Bangladesh and forced to fight in Myanmar’s civil war – a story shared by others who...

Dec 4, 2024 · In August 2017, a concerted campaign of extreme violence and killings by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people occurred in Rakhine state, forcing around 770,000 people to flee to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Seven years later, more than 1 million Rohingya people now live in the camps of Cox’s Bazar, in dire conditions.

5 hours ago · Myanmar’s military, which has ruled the country since 2021, also has a track record of abuse. ... During his visits to the Cox’s Bazar camps, John Quinley, director of Fortify Rights, a rights group closely monitoring Myanmar and the situation in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, said he has heard numerous reports of the Arakan Army trying ...

Oct 29, 2024 · Amnesty International researcher Joe Freeman recently traveled to Cox’s Bazar, the district in Bangladesh along the border with western Myanmar’s Rakhine state where thousands of ethnic...

Oct 15, 2024 · This has not only added unmanageable pressure to Bangladeshi authorities, but subjected over a million Rohingya refugees to a humanitarian crisis in overcrowded and underfunded refugee camps in the district of Cox’s Bazar.

Nov 25, 2024 · Militant recruitment and violence have escalated in Cox's Bazar refugee camps, where thousands of Rohingya insurgents have emerged among over a million displaced people, according to sources and internal aid reports reviewed by Reuters.

Nov 25, 2024 · Thousands of Rohingya insurgents, like 32-year-old Rafiq, have emerged from camps housing over a million refugees in Cox's Bazar, where militant recruitment and violence have surged this year, according to four people familiar with the conflict and two internal aid agency reports seen by Reuters.

Aug 29, 2024 · On Aug. 25, 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya families started pouring into Bangladesh, fleeing by boat or on foot to escape brutal violence and persecution in Myanmar's western coastal...

Ten months into the Rakhine crisis, hundreds and thousands of displaced people from Myanmar continue to live in teeming makeshift settlements in Cox's Bazar. It's the same tale everywhere – families were forced to leave a place they called home to flee the violence and save their lives.