Rohingya Activist: 'Rohingya Are Not Safe Anywhere'
More than half of Myanmar's Rohingya have fled the country since 1978 because of periodic military crackdowns. Activist Adbul Rasheed is working for the safe repatriation of his people.
by Ashley Westerman
Dec 10, 2017
4 minutes
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution last week condemning "the ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar by that country's military.
The move, which is the first step to what could eventually lead to targeted sanctions against the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar, came a day after Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, suggested that the Myanmar military may be guilty of genocide against the Muslim minority group.
Since August, more than 600,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh, . This exodus follows an army crackdown sparked by an Aug. 24 attack on Myanmar police posts and
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