Ayas, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee who teaches Burmese to children in the camps, tells The Independent that he and thousands like him are now united in their struggle against the Myanmar ...

Described as the world’s most persecuted people, 1.1 million Rohingya people live in Myanmar. They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades.

The plight of Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya is intensifying almost eight years since hundreds of thousands fled persecution and ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities.

This time, however, he was not escaping the “raining bullets” that had killed his father – he was going back to train and fight against those responsible for his people’s bloody exodus from Myanmar.