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Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a televised speech to the nation at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. After a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparked allegations of ethnic cleansing, Suu Kyi said her country does not fear international scrutiny. (AP Photo)

Aung San Suu Kyi, under fire over Rohingya, defends Myanmar actions

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FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017 file photo, flames engulf a house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Security forces and allied mobs have burned down thousands of homes in Northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 million Rohingya lived, in recent weeks. (AP Photo, File)

Rohingya Muslims are being wiped off Myanmar’s map

By ROBIN McDOWELL - Associated Press

A Rohingya Muslim woman, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wails siting beside her relative who fell unconscious after the boat they were traveling in capsized at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. The woman survived. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Fleeing Rohingya Muslims watch as homes burn in Myanmar

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, center, meets with a Rohingya Muslim child at Kutupalong refugee camp, near the border town of Ukhia, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Hasina visited the struggling refugee camp that has absorbed some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled recent violence in Myanmar, a crisis she said left her speechless. (AP Photo/Saiful Kallol)

The Latest: Indonesia sends 34 tons of aid for Rohingya

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Shoabib, 7, lies on the floor next to his father at Sadar Hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. Shoabib got a bullet injury on the chest when Myanmar soldiers attacked his village. He and his father lost track of their family members when fleeing to Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Bangladesh hospital struggles to cope with Rohingya wounds

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

Rohingya Muslims, who have recently crossed over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, offer Friday prayers at a makeshift mosque in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. The U.N. said Friday that an &quot;alarming number&quot; of 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar by crossing into Bangladesh in the last two weeks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The Latest: Holocaust Museum ‘horrified’ by Myanmar attacks

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Houses are on fire in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in the Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from the Quran were seen ripped and left on the ground. (AP Photo)

New fires in empty Rohingya village challenge Myanmar claims

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A Rohingya child, newly arrived from Myanmmar to the Bangladesh side of the border, stands by a wooden fence at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, was already sheltering some 100,000 Rohingya refugees before another 123,000 flooded in after Aug. 25, according to the U.N. refugee agency's latest estimate on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The Latest: UN says 146,000 have now fled Myanmar violence

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A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Boat with Rohingya refugees capsizes, killing 5 as more flee

By MUNEEZA NAQVI and JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

A Rohingya family piles on their meagre belongings on to boat they hired to bring them deeper inside Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya have crossed creeks on the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

UNHCR: 123,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar

By Muneeza Naqvi - Associated Press

Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugee women and children look for shelters after crossing the border near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. Aid officials said relief camps were reaching full capacity as thousands of Rohingya refugees continued to pour into Bangladesh on Sunday fleeing violence in western Myanmar. Some 73,000 people have crossed the border since violence erupted Aug. 25 in Myanmar's Rakhine state, said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Vivian Tan. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The Latest: Indonesia demands restraint from Myanmar gov’t

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In this image made from video, residents displaced by violence wait in Buthidaung township, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Myanmar's government and advocates for the country's Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority traded charges Sunday of killing civilians, burning down buildings and planting land mines, as clashes that began last week when insurgents launched attacks against police posts continued. (DVB via AP)

Ongoing Myanmar clashes leave 96 dead, including 6 civilians

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Illustration on the BNP and terrorism in Bangladesh by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Bangladesh terrorism hidden behind politics

By Tahseen Ali

Participants hold placards during a protest against a spate of violent attacks across the country targeting the country's Muslim minority, in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Thousands of protestors gathered in different cities to decry the silence of India's Hindu right-wing government in the face of the public lynchings and violent attacks on at least a dozen Muslim men and boys since it was voted to power in 2014. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Bangladesh Hindus deserve U.S. protection

By Rachel Avraham

Bangladesh arrests 6 suspected Islamist militants

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Saudi King Salman walks upon his arrival at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, March 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) ** FILE **

Saudis deny $1B mosque-funding project in Bangladesh

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this March 7, 2017 photo, a Bangladeshi acid attack survivor gets her make up applied during the event 'Beauty Redefined' in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Organizers said they hoped to highlight the fact that acid victims, too often overlooked, are a vital part of society. They deliberately chose to hold the event on the eve of International Women’s Day. (AP Photo/A. M. Ahad)

Acid victims redefine beauty in Bangladesh fashion show

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press