In Bangladesh, thousands of Rohingya Muslims have staged protests in refugee camps to mark five years since Burmese soldiers began a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.N. reports as many as 10,000 Rohingya were killed by Burmese forces during the 2017 pogroms, though some estimates put the death toll at more than twice that number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another 730,000 Rohingya were forced to flee Burma. On Thursday, August 25, protesters in a sprawling refugee camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar said they\u2019re ready to be repatriated \u2014 but only if they\u2019re guaranteed security and Burmese citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Bangladesh, thousands of Rohingya Muslims have staged protests in refugee camps to mark five years since Burmese soldiers began a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against their community. The U.N. reports as many as 10,000 Rohingya were killed by Burmese forces during the 2017 pogroms, though some estimates put the death toll at …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[164,167,2722],"class_list":["post-85318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","tag-bangladesh","tag-myanmar","tag-rohingya-muslims"],"yoast_head":"\n