Why the Rohingya Are Being Treated the Way They Are

Why the Rohingya Are Being Treated the Way They Are

Rows and rows of neatly set blocks of two-roomed tenements line the eastern corner of Bhasan Char, a 40-square kilometer sand-bar island off the coast of Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal within Bangladesh’s territorial waters.  Women cradle their babies in the narrow and cramped balconies of this sprawling mass of concrete while the men … Read more

How Aceh’s About-face on Rohingya Refugees Echoes in India

Rohingya Refugees and the Shifting Tide in Indonesia

On December 27, just as the year was drawing to a close, a crowd of students broke through police barricades and barged into a temporary shelter housing Rohingya refugees in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, located at the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.  Many of the refugees had landed on Aceh’s shores … Read more