"The coup is obviously good for no one," says a human rights activist. "But for the Rohingya, the risk is heightened. This is the military regime responsible for the atrocities over many, many years."
What Myanmar s Coup Means For The Rohingya
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 2. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh are condemning the military coup in their homeland and saying it makes them more fearful to return. A brutal counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar s military in 2017 drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh.
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This month s military coup in Myanmar has made an already dire situation for Rohingya refugees even worse, say human rights activists. Now, prospects are even more unlikely for hundreds of thousands to return to Myanmar from sprawling camps in neighboring Bangladesh.