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A newly arrived Rohingya family waits at a temporary shelter before their registration at Nayapara refugee camp, some 69 kilometres (43 miles) from in Cox bazar, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018. In Rakhine state of Myanmar, government troops have been accused of &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot; that has forced more than 655,000 of Rohingya Muslims to flee into Bangladesh, out of which 60 per cent of the refugees are children. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Suu Kyi says Rohingya mass grave investigation positive step

Associated Press

Reuters journalist Wa Lone speaks to media cuffed from the back of a police truck as he leaves court Wednesday, Jan.10, 2018, outside of Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Trump admin. condemns Myanmar for jailing Reuters journalists

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million, was basking in international praise just a few years ago as it transitioned to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. Since then, a campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country's 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Fears that Rohingya Muslims could be next radical Islamic recruits

By Prashun Mazumdar — Special to The Washington Times

FILE- In this Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand holding their sick children after Bangladesh border guard soldiers refused to let them journey towards a hospital and turned them back towards the zero line border in Palong Khali, Bangladesh. An international aid agency projects that 48,000 babies will be born in overcrowded refugee camps this year for Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar. Save the Children warned in a report released Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, that the newborns will be at an increased risk of disease and malnutrition, and therefore of dying before the age of five. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Aid group projects 48,000 births in crowded Rohingya camps

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million, was basking in international praise just a few years ago as it transitioned to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. Since then, a campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country's 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Analysis: No sign Rohingya will be allowed to return home

By ESTHER HTUSAN and ROBIN MCDOWELL - Associated Press

A Rohingya Muslim child carrying a blanket at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. Many thousands of Rohingya people have crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Pressed by lawmakers, US mulls more sanctions on Myanmar

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this Friday Nov. 24, 2017, photo, Mohammadul Hassan, 18, is photographed in his family's tent in Jamtoli refugee camp in Bangladesh. Hassan still bears the scars on his chest and back from being shot by soldiers who attempted to execute him. More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since August, and many have brought with them stories of atrocities committed by security forces in Myanmar, including an Aug. 27 army massacre that reportedly took place in the village of Maung Nu. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Rohingya survivors: Myanmar’s army slaughtered men, children

By TODD PITMAN - Associated Press

Myanmar investigates 10 bodies found in grave in Rakhine

Associated Press

This combo photo comprises of portraits of some of the Rohingya Muslim women taken during an interview with The Associated Press in November 2017 in Kutupalong and Gundum refugee camp in Bangladesh. They said they were raped by members of Myanmar's armed forces. The use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, the AP found in interviews with 29 Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. The military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

21 Rohingya women recount rape by Myanmar armed forces

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, photo, F, 22, who says she was raped by members of Myanmar's armed forces in June and again in September, cries as she speaks to The Associated Press in her tent in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. The Associated Press has found that the rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar's security forces has been sweeping and methodical. The AP interviewed 29 women and girls who say they were raped by Myanmar's armed forces, and found distinct patterns in their accounts, their assailants' uniforms and the details of the rapes themselves. The most common attack involved groups of soldiers storming into a house, beating any children inside and then beating and gang raping the women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Rohingya women methodically raped by Myanmar’s armed forces

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

Interpreter sought asylum after smuggling Bibles into Burma

By KATE MASTERS - Associated Press

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, left, meets Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Pope calls Myanmar refugees by Rohingya name

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Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid, left, holds hands with Pope Francis as he accompanies at the end of their meeting at the presidential palace, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis demands ‘decisive measures’ to resolve Rohingya exodus

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis meets Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Convention Centre of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. The pontiff is in Myanmar for the first stage of a week-long visit that will also take him to neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits ‘Rohingya’

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis meets Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Pope Francis traveled to Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday to meet with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has come under increasing international criticism over a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that the U.N. and U.S. have termed a campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” (Max Rossi/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope Francis demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits ‘Rohingya’

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis left the Vatican on Sunday for a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh. While attention will focus on how Francis addresses the Rohingya Muslim crisis, the trip also holds huge significance for the tiny Catholic communities in each country. (Associated Press/File)

Pope Francis to raise Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

In this image provided by Myanmar's Ministry of Information, Myanmar's Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor Kyaw Tint Swe, right, and Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Hassan Mahmud Ali exchange notes after signing the Arrangement on Return of Displaced Persons from Rakhine State in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement on Thursday covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. (Myanmar Information Ministry via AP)

Myanmar, Bangladesh sign agreement on Rohingya refugees

Associated Press

Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi poses with other counterparts of members of the Asia Europe Foreign Ministers (ASEM) for a group photo before their meeting at Myanmar International Convention Centre Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Aung San Suu Kyi blames world conflicts partly on illegal immigration

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a joint press conference with Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi at the Foreign Ministry office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Tillerson said Wednesday that his country was deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya flee to Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Rex Tillerson: U.S. considers individual sanctions for Myanmar

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

A view of the Hakim Para camp of Rohingya refugees in Ukhiya, Bangladesh, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. More than 600,000 members of the Muslim minority have fled to Bangladesh since August, when Rohingya insurgents attacked Myanmar police and paramilitary posts, and security forces responded with a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Myanmar military denies atrocities against Rohingya Muslims

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press