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Rohingya refugees board a naval ship to be transported to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Officials in Bangladesh sent a second group of Rohingya refugees to the island on Monday despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees left Cox’s Bazar voluntarily under government management. Authorities say the refugees were selected for relocation based on their willingness, and that no pressure was applied on them. But several human rights and activist groups say some refugees have been forced to go to the island, located 21 miles (34 kilometers) from the mainland. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh sends 3rd group of Rohingya refugees to island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

A lone street vender waits for customers at Khao San road, a once popular hangout with bars and entertainment for locals and tourists in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Thailand on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, reported over 500 new coronavirus cases, most of them migrant workers who already were isolated, and the government said it was tightening movements of people around the country. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Thailand scrambles to contain outbreak, secure vaccines

By BILL BREDESEN - Associated Press

Burmese refugee family finds home in rural Indiana

By KRISTI HILEMAN - Associated Press

A Rohingya refugee woman who is among those being moved to an island called ‘Bhasan Char’ cries outside a transit area where they are temporally housed in Ukhiya, Bangladesh, Thursday, Dec.3, 2020. (AP Photo/ Shafiqur Rahman)

Bangladesh begins relocating Rohingya refugees to island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees board a ship as they are ferried to Bhasan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Authorities in Bangladesh have begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. (AP Photo/Saleh Noman)

First Rohingya refugees arrive at isolated Bangladesh island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Heather Nauert with Rohingyan children at the Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp, Bangladesh )Photo courtesy Heather Nauert)

A plea to help Myanmar’s Rohingya people

By Heather Nauert

Protesters hold placards as they protest outside the Union Election Commission office, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The military backed main opposition party on Wednesday said it does not recognize last Sunday's Myanmar election, citing unfairness, and rejected the results. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Military-backed party rejects Myanmar election as unfair

By PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

Supporters wearing face mask cheer as they gather in front of Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party's headquarters during Election Day Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Unofficial count gives Suu Kyi’s party victory in Myanmar

By PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

Supporters wearing face mask cheer as they gather in front of Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party's headquarters during Election Day Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Suu Kyi’s party claims to have won majority in Myanmar polls

By PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

Voters wearing protective face masks and shields observe social distancing as they line up outside a polling station Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. Voting began Sunday morning in Myanmar’s elections, with more than 90 parties competing for seats in the lower and upper houses of the national Parliament. The ruling party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is heavily favored to be returned to power. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Suu Kyi party set to win Myanmar vote with weak opposition

By AUNG NAING SOE and PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

A supporter of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) holds a toddler while onboard a trishaw during an election campaign motorcade in Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Myanmar's citizens go to the polls Sunday, Nov. 8, in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Suu Kyi’s party expected to win second term in Myanmar polls

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

UN urges cease-fire to tackle virus ahead of Myanmar vote

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Myanmar firebrand monk Wirathu surrenders to police

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UN expert airs human rights concerns ahead of Myanmar vote

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Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes an early voting for upcoming Nov. 8 general election at Union Election Commission office, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar leader Suu Kyi casts her vote in November elections

By AUNG SHINE OO - Associated Press

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi wearing protective face mask and shield waves to supporters as she leaves a demonstration of the voting for upcoming Nov. 8 general election, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar polls body defends canceled voting in insecure areas

By PYAE SONE WIN - Associated Press

India to provide first submarine to Myanmar’s navy

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FILE - In this June 24, 2014, file photo, Rohingya children gather at the Dar Paing camp for Muslim refugees, north of Sittwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. The de facto detention of 130,000 ethnic Rohingya in squalid camps in Myanmar amounts to a form of apartheid, a human rights group alleged Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 in urging the world to pressure Aung San Suu Kyi’s government to free them. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Rights group decries Myanmar’s camps for displaced Rohingya

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Supporters of the. military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) wave the party flags and cheer from their motorbikes during an election campaign for next month's general election, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Ethnic identifiers in Myanmar election app criticized

By PYAE SONE WIN and GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Bawi UK, 22, is photographed in his apartment in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. UK was a small child when his parents fled Myanmar, leaving him and his siblings to be cared for by their maternal grandmother. UK said the family suffered discrimination as Christians in a predominantly Buddhist nation. The military government was also trying to forcibly conscript his father. &quot;To run for office, you had to be a Buddhist; to rent a house, you had to be Buddhist,&quot; said UK, a social work student at Rhode Island College and a youth leader at the Refugee Dream Center, an advocacy organization in Providence. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

New US citizen refugees excited for first presidential vote

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press