“We were all together but suddenly they started firing. I could not look back, because I thought I would die,” 12-year-old Jamal Hussein recounted to an AFP reporter at a refugee camp in Bahukhali, Bangladesh. He has not seen his parents since his five brothers were gunned down by Myanmar’s army (also known as the Tatmadaw) in a massacre at Aung Sit Pyin located in the northern Rakhine state on the August 25, 2017.

The number of Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August 25 has reached 313,000, a UN spokesman said Monday.The estimate came from Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency.The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have said the number arriving has slowed down in recent days although the situation is still volatile.On Sunday the UN said some 294,000 Rohingya had arrived, a jump of only 4,000 from the previous day."Many ne

More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state, mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a senior UN (United Nations) representative told AFP (Agence France-Presse) on Friday – around twice the government's figure."Perhaps about a thousand or more are already dead," said Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar.

Global humanitarian organisations have appealed to the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar’s government over ongoing violence against the Rohingya, an ethnic minority group in Myanmar. Many international organisations have raised concerns over the matter as the Muslim minority group has been facing discrimination from the government and its military for decades.

Indonesian Muslims protested outside the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday demanding an end to violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.Thousands of demonstrators, many in white Islamic robes and skullcaps, walked through the capital’s streets to converge outside the embassy in downtown Jakarta.Persecution of the Rohingya, reviled as illegal immigrants and mostly denied citizenship in Myanmar, has been a lightning rod for anger in Indonesia and across the Muslim world.Pro

Nearly 168,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar in the last five years as a result of violence and desperation, according to a new report on forced displacement in South-East Asia published by the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency). Many Rohingyas seek help by fleeing into neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Malaysian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) call on Myanmar government to immediately stop military operations on Rakhine civilians that have targeted the Rohingya people.A memorandum by the NGOs, which will be delivered through the Ambassador of Myanmar to Malaysia, Zaw Myint, to the State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and President of Myanmar Htin Kyaw.“We from the Malaysian NGOs are seriously concern pertaining to the current Myanmar military operation in the Rakhine state.

Religious persecution against the Muslim minority Rohingya in Myanmar has been an ongoing crisis that has thrown the country into international limelight for all the wrong reasons.