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The international community keeps treating the symptoms without touching the underlying cause: our political exclusion within Myanmar.
A view of the Iftar gathering attended by 60,000 Rohingya refugees and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in Bangladesh in March 2025.
August 25, 2026, marks nine years since the day nearly 1 million of us Rohingya were forced to flee our homes after the genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Myanmar’s military. We fled to a place often described as the world’s most dangerous and crowded refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It is now home to over 1.3 million Rohingya refugees.
The possibility of our safe and permanent return is complicated by not just the military but armed groups like the Arakan Army, which control the territory that is our homeland, and a long history of repeated returns without redress of the political realities that made expulsion and genocide possible.
