The number of Rohingya refugees crossing from Myanmar into Bangladesh has surged ... reports In addition to the numbers shown on the map, about 36,000 additional refugees are also living in ...

Thousands of Rohingya fled to what is now Bangladesh in four main periods: the late 1700s and early 1800s, the 1940s, 1978 and, most recently, in 1991and 1992. Refugee flows have been prompted by ...

Since 1991, Bangladesh has been the main country of refuge for members of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma's Arakan State, many thousands of whom have fled gross human rights violations ...