Rohingya crisis: a year since it shocked the world, what’s changed?

This August marks a full year since one of the 21st century’s worst refugee crises gripped the world’s attention.

• Abdullah Yusuf
• The Conversation

In 2017, an unprecedented number of Rohingya Muslim refugees began fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state for neighbouring Bangladesh, after Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown in response to attacks on border posts by Rohingya rebels.

This crisis is, as rightly pointed out by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, “a humanitarian and human rights nightmare”; the United Nations described the military offensive in Rakhine that provoked the exodus as a…

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