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A Crisis Ignored: The Ethnic Cleansing Of The Rohingya

548 views · Published 20 November 2018 · 9:21 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: GBH News · 2018 · News & Politics

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It's been more than a year since almost a million Rohingya Muslims began to flee their homes, running from what the United Nations has called a "classic case of ethnic cleansing." Entire villages were burned, women were raped, and generations of families were brutally murdered. Most who managed to escape landed in crowded camps and settlements in Bangladesh. And inexplicably, Bangladeshi officials recently reached a deal with the Burmese government to start sending refugees back from where they fled. That was supposed to start this month, but after protests at the refugee camps, and from UN officials, the deal has been postponed.  Still, life in the camps is far from safe — with brutal and often deadly conditions. What little aid and medical treatment is available has come largely from foreign groups. Jim Braude was joined by and Kel Kelly, founder and president of HumanityRises.org, and Paul English, co-founder of Kayak.com and HumanityRises.org board member. The organization is working to combat the Rohingya ethnic cleansing and refugee crisis.

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