The United States will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the "abhorrent ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.

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The Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar's refugee camps yesterday recalled the horrors of killings, rapes and torching of their houses by the Myanmar military exactly a year ago.

Bangladesh has planned to begin the relocation process of the Rohingya refugees, who fled the brutal military crackdown in Myanmar last year, from all refugee camps to Bhashan Char from September.

When the Rohingyas started pouring into Bangladesh with horrific stories of atrocities committed by the Myanmar military, people of Ukhia and Teknaf welcomed them with dry food and water.

One in two Rohingya children who fled to Bangladesh without their parents were orphaned by brutal violence, a new Save the Children study said yesterday.

The lives of Rohingyas "will once again be at risk" if funding is not urgently secured, say UN officials.

Rohingya militants whose deadly attacks last year spurred the ruthless Myanmar army crackdown that drove 700,000 of the minority into Bangladesh says it acted to "defend" the Muslim group from persecution.

Marking a year of Rohingya influx, a group of civil society and NGO members form a human chain in front of National Press Club in Dhaka demanding justice for "genocide" carried out by the Myanmar government and military in Rakhine state.

One year later, despite months of discussions among Myanmar, Bangladesh, the United Nations and a string of aid agencies, there are few signs that the Rohingya can go home anytime soon.

On August 25 last year, hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas started fleeing military operations in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and crossing the border to take shelter in Bangladesh. Several rounds of talks have been held for repatriation of the refugees. But so far, there is no visible progress.

It is a tented city of nearly a million souls crammed in just 26sq km of undulating terrain.

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Lunchtime was just over at Balukhali camp 8E. The household of Akhter Hujur officially has four members -- himself, his young wife, her sister and a tiny infant daughter -- but there is always one extra mouth to feed. That mouth belongs to a person with neither mother or father, nor family.

The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, Unicef has warned.

Aung San Suu Kyi's remark that pace of Rohingya return depends on Bangladesh is grossly wrong and reflects the lack of Myanmar's sincerity to a sustainable solution to the crisis, says international relations analysts.

The repatriation of the Rohingyas remains elusive even nine months after the signing of an agreement between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

World leaders’ failure to act has allowed the Myanmar security forces’ perpetrators of crimes against humanity to remain at large for a year after their murderous campaign against the Rohingya prompted an exodus of epic proportions, Amnesty International says.

It's one of the greatest refugee crises after World War II. The UN called it et