More than a Sad Sound Bite

Rohingya obtaining water from a pump at a refugee camp in Bangaladesh

Picture credit
AurĂ©lie Marrier d’Unienville
and NPR.

It is hard to forget the tired, despair-filled faces of Rohingya refugees fleeing an obscure province in Burma/Myanmar for an equally obscure and green and brown place in Bangladesh.

500,000 refugees fled when the Burmese military burned their homes as collective punishment for militant attacks. The Rohingya should be more than just sad faces in a far away country. GSU Library resources can explain the story behind the Rohingya crisis, place them on a map, and bring their plight into sharper focus.

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