Weaponizing social media: The Rohingya crisis

"Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar," where viral propaganda fuels a campaign the U.N. calls ethnic cleansing

• Mar 19, 2018

U.N. blames Facebook for spreading hatred in Myanmar

Facebook said in a statement there is "is no place for hate speech or content that promotes violence"

• Mar 13, 2018

Peace prize laureates accuse Myanmar leaders of genocide

Critics say Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is complicit in humanitarian crisis

• Mar 1, 2018

"Technology is like a bomb": Social media weaponized in Rohingya crisis

CBSN Originals documentary exposes how cheap cellphones and social media expose millions to propaganda targeting a vulnerable minority

• Feb 23, 2018

Artist helps Rohingya women face sexual violence, past and present

Dibarah Mahboob works with refugees who fled attacks, including rape, in Myanmar, only to find threat had followed them to Bangladesh

• Feb 21, 2018

U.N. warns of "major new emergency" in Rohingya refugee crisis

Filippo Grandi also warned that conditions aren't right for Rohingya Muslims to voluntarily return to Myanmar

• Feb 13, 2018

Rohingya refugees allege gov't abuse "crueler" than killing

Expert says Myanmar using starvation as "time-honored way of doing genocide, and one of the easiest ways"

• Feb 8, 2018

AP finds mass graves, latest evidence of Rohingya genocide

Evidence growing of what looks like genocide against long-persecuted ethnic Muslim minority in mainly Buddhist nation, AP says

• Feb 1, 2018

Bill Richardson bails on "whitewash" Rohingya panel

As U.N. says still unsafe for Muslim refugees to return to Myanmar, veteran U.S. diplomat calls panel a "cheerleading operation" for Aung San Suu Kyi

• Jan 25, 2018

Crisis continues for Rohingya Muslims languishing at refugee camp

The Bangladeshi government refuses to issue birth certificates to Rohingya babies born at the world's largest refugee camp

• Jan 15, 2018

Rohingyas describe bloody massacre at hands of Myanmar troops

While officials won't allow media to verify survivors' tales of gruesome executions, evidence is mounting of orchestrated war crimes

• Dec 21, 2017

Aid group says shocking number of Rohingyas killed in 2 months

Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 Rohingyas killed in just 2 months in crackdown by security forces

• Dec 14, 2017

U.S. "deeply concerned" by arrest of journalists in Myanmar

Reuters employees charged with violating Official Secrets Act over "secret" documents related to Rohingya crisis

• Dec 13, 2017

Pope utters word he had avoided in emotional meeting with refugees

Pope Francis asked for forgiveness from refugees in Bangladesh for the hurt and persecution they have endured

• Dec 1, 2017

Pope breaks recent silence over what U.N. calls "ethnic cleansing"

Pope Francis says it's "imperative" for world to provide assistance with Asia's worst refugee crisis in decades

• Nov 30, 2017

Pope dives into Rohingya crisis upon arrival in Myanmar

All ears on leader of Catholic Church as he meets civilian and military leaders in nation accused of "ethnic cleansing" of Muslim minority

• Nov 27, 2017

U.S. declares "ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya in Myanmar

"It is clear that the situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya," wrote Sec. Tillerson in a statement on Wednesday

• Nov 22, 2017

Rohingya crisis draws Tillerson to Myanmar

Secretary of State to meet leader Aung San Suu Kyi as report cites "mounting evidence" of genocide

• Nov 15, 2017

Suu Kyi benefits from neighbors' silence on Rohingya

20 years ago, Myanmar leader railed against Asian partners' inaction in her country, now she's likely counting on it

• Nov 13, 2017

U.N. condemns violence in Myanmar; much work still to be done

Statement calls on Myanmar's government "to ensure no further excessive use of military force" and take immediate steps to respect human rights

• Nov 6, 2017

Under intense pressure, Suu Kyi visits scorched Rakhine state

It is first visit by Myanmar's leader to region from which 600,000 Muslim minorities have fled "ethnic cleansing"

• Nov 2, 2017

U.S. review to confirm Rohingya "ethnic cleansing"

The assessment would raise pressure on the Trump administration to consider new sanctions on a country that had been lauded for its democratic transition

• Oct 24, 2017

$340M pledged to help Rohingya refugees, U.N. says

The money will support more than 600,000 ethnic Rohingya who have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh

• Oct 23, 2017

Rohingya refugees top 500,000 as humanitarian crisis looms

Close to 60 percent of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who've escaped Myanmar are children and teenagers

• Oct 21, 2017

"The magnitude of the challenge is daunting" in the crisis of Rohingya children, UNICEF says

Report details desperate plight of the over half million Rohingya refugees who've fled intense violence in neighboring Myanmar

• Oct 19, 2017

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