Southeast Asia, etc. #1 Myanmar: Rohingya Crisis - a podcast by Dene-Hern Chen

A humanitarian crisis rages in northern Myanmar. Hundred of thousands of Rohingya people, a Muslim minority group, have been fleeing Rakhine State since August 2017. Today, more than 700,000 new Rohingya refugees have flooded into refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.

"Maybe it’s also something that haunts me because I am German. And the generation of my grandparents has gone through something similar. And my generation is asking these questions like 'How the hell could you not see what happened in these concentration camps? Why did you not ask questions?'"

"It’s kind of painful knowing that these people are coming from your country, and the majority of the people, including your friends, support this. It’s just so ugly."


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Verena Hoelzl is a German journalist based in Yangon since 2015. She has reported extensively in Rakhine State and in the refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.

Minzayar Oo is an award-winning Burmese photographer. He has covered the ongoing per

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