Five years of the Myanmar-Bangladesh Rohingya crisis
By: Samina Akhter (Dhaka-Bangladesh) Myanmar’s violent ethnic cleansing program, which forcibly forced roughly a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps, is going to mark its fifth anniversary upcoming August month. Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya Muslims is not new, with major waves of emigration recorded in 1978, 1992, and most recently in 2017. Some 30,000…


