Rohingya Exodus

FILE- In this Sept. 18, 2017 file photo, Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to collect food items distributed by aid agencies near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Six months after waves of attacks emptied Rohingya villages in Myanmar, sending 700,000 people fleeing into Bangladesh, there are few signs anyone is going home soon. Life isn’t easy in the refugee camps, but the Rohingya living there have one immense consolation. “Nobody is coming to kill us, that’s for sure,” says one man. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Months after exodus began, Rohingya see no end to suffering

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Their houses are often made of plastic sheets. Much of their food comes from aid agencies.

Female Nobel laureates in Bangladesh to meet Rohingya women

This combination of two satellite images provided by DigitalGlobe, Dec. 20, 2017, left; and Feb. 13, 2018, right; displaying the village of Myin Hlut, 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Maungdaw, Rakhine state, Myanmar shows that predominantly Rohingya village and hamlets have been completely leveled by authorities in recent weeks, far more than previously reported. While Myanmar's government claims it's simply trying to rebuild a devastated region, the operation has raised deep concern among human rights advocates, who say the government is destroying what amounts to scores of crime scenes before any credible investigation takes place. (DigitalGlobe via AP)

Myanmar bulldozes what was left of Rohingya Muslim villages

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In this Jan. 18, 2018, file photo, a relocated Rohingya boy looks out from a bus window as he arrives at the Balukhali refugee camp outside Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

AP PHOTOS: The struggles of Rohingya in camps, fearing home

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‘I feel trapped': Violence fuels fear among Myanmar Muslims

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — For four straight days last month, Rahim Muddinn watched, amazed, as Myanmar’s state-run newspapers published special supplements showing Rohingya Muslims accused of being terrorists — nearly 250 photos each day.

Skepticism, worry amid preparation for Rohingya repatriation

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar says it’s ready for a gradual repatriation of Muslim Rohingya refugees chased out by the Buddhist-majority country’s military.

In this Jan. 20, 2018, photo, a group of Rohingya refugees hold banner that show a list of demand before Bangladesh and Myanmar governments start the process of repatriation, at Kutupalong refugee camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. With the first repatriations of Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar just days away, and more than 1 million living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, international aid workers, local officials and the refugees say preparations have barely begun and most refugees would rather contend with the squalor of the camps than the dangers they could face if they return home. It's unclear if more than a handful of Rohingya will even be willing to go home. (AP Photo/Rishabh R. Jain)

Rohingya Muslim refugee return to Myanmar likely delayed

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The gradual repatriation of more than 680,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar from Bangladesh, scheduled to begin Tuesday, has been delayed amid widespread fears that they are being forced to return, Bangladesh said Monday.

Myanmar army enjoys popularity surge amid Rohingya crackdown

BANGKOK (AP) — Activist Nyo Tun spent 10 years as a political prisoner locked away by Myanmar’s military in the notorious Insein prison, where he endured beatings and other cruelty for his efforts to bring democracy.

Japan to provide $3 million to Myanmar for Rohingya return

BANGKOK (AP) — Japanese’s foreign minister on Friday urged Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to guarantee the safe and voluntary return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in troubled Rakhine state.

Aid group projects 48,000 births in crowded Rohingya camps

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An aid agency projects 48,000 babies will be born this year in the refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh after military operations against them in Myanmar.

Rohingya survivors: Myanmar’s army slaughtered men, children

UKHIA, Bangladesh (AP) — For six hours he hid in an upstairs room, listening to the crackle of gunfire and the screams of people being slaughtered outside his Myanmar home.

Myanmar massacre survivors live amid reminders of tragedy

UKHIA, Bangladesh (AP) — Some of the massacre survivors hold precious photos or mementos that belonged to those they lost.

In this Nov. 5, 2017, photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims carry yellow plastic drums they used as flotation aids and listen to Bangladeshi authorities, not pictured, after swimming across the Naf river at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. The Naf river is a natural border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Several young Rohingya Muslims escaping the violence in their homeland of Myanmar are now so desperate that they are swimming to safety into neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Rohingya desperate to flee Myanmar are turning to swimming

SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh (AP) — Nabi Hussain owes his life to a yellow plastic oil container.

The 13-year-old Rohingya boy couldn’t swim, and had never even seen the sea before fleeing his village in Myanmar.

In this Oct. 1, 2017, photo, survivor of a boat capsize Fatima Khatun, from Myanmar's Moidaung Village, stands for a photograph at a transit shelter at Kutupalong camp for newly arrived Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Fatima lost her mother and two siblings when the boat they were traveling in, to escape from Myanmar, capsized on Sept. 28. She survived along with her father Lalu Mia and two other siblings. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Photos: Portraits of Rohingya survivors of capsized boat

They were Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in their home in Myanmar and headed to Bangladesh. But the storm was fierce, the boatman got lost, the engine broke a few miles from shore.

In this Nov. 5, 2017, photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims carry yellow plastic drums they used as flotation aids and listen to Bangladeshi authorities, not pictured, after swimming across the Naf river at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. The Naf river is a natural border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Several young Rohingya Muslims escaping the violence in their homeland of Myanmar are now so desperate that they are swimming to safety into neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Photos: Desperate to flee violence in Myanmar, some Rohingya are swimming to Bangladesh

Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar are now so desperate that some are swimming all the way to Bangladesh, 2.5 miles away

In this Oct. 1, 2017, photo Rohingya man Alam Jafar, second right, stands with other Rohingya refugees at a transit shelter at Kutupalong camp for newly arrived Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. In Myanmar, the 25-year-old farmer owned a verdant rice field, a boat that ferried passengers up and down the river and lived in a four-room house made of wood and bamboo surrounded by coconut and mango trees. When the mob came to his village on Sept. 25, Jafar had no choice but to flee with his wife and three children. On Sept. 28, the small fishing boat they were traveling in capsized while it was bound for Bangladesh and left him as the sole survivor of the family of 5. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Myanmar attacks, sea voyage rob young father of everything

INANI BEACH, Bangladesh (AP) — Across the ferocious waves and the churning black water, Alam Jafar could see his frantic 7-year-old son gasping for breath, his arms flailing just above the ocean’s surface.

A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

PHOTOS: Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar struggle to get by in Bangladesh

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are living in desperate circumstances in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The U.N. says more than 500,000 have fled violence in neighboring Myanmar in the past month.

In this Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, photo, a Rohingya refugee reacts after seeing the long lines for aid material at Kutupalong refugee camp outside Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Violence in Myanmar forces Rohingya to take on great risk

Explore the AP’s coverage of the Rohingya and their flight from violence in Myanmar – part of the largest human exodus in Asia since the Vietnam War.

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2014, file photo, a Rohingya barber cuts hair at a roadside makeshift barber shop as a street vendor sells vegetable in The' Chaung village, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have been called the world's most persecuted minority, a people without a country. Recently, in numbers estimated to be nearing 300,000, Rohingya have been fleeing for their lives into already-crowded refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. It is the third such mass exodus in four decades. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

AP Explains: What’s behind Rohingya exodus from Myanmar

Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims have been called the world’s most persecuted minority, a people without a country.