Photographers in Cox's Bazar

Nine Years of Testimony: What Rohingya Survivors Have Continued to Tell the World

Reporting style, Balanced: Primarily reported testimony and context, with a clear emphasis on survivors’ demands for rights, justice, and safe return.

Political context, Centre: The piece is largely reportage centered on refugee testimony and human-rights claims, without endorsing a political party or ideology.

Nine years after Myanmar’s 2017 military crackdown drove more than 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh, refugees gathered in Cox’s Bazar to commemorate victims and renew calls for justice, recognized identity, rights, and safe, dignified return to Rakhine State. Survivors Mohamed Kaiser and Asmat Ara described killings, sexual violence, family loss, interrupted education, and insecurity in the camps; community leader Khin Maung argued that the crisis is political, not merely humanitarian. Return remains impossible at scale, while refugees and rights groups also report alleged abuses by the Arakan Army. Ongoing international legal proceedings and humanitarian assistance have not resolved the underlying crisis, and worsening food insecurity, funding cuts, overcrowding, and safety risks make camp life increasingly difficult.

Why Is Delhi Witnessing a Wave of Protests?

Reporting style, Informative: Presented as a factual explainer, with no clear persuasive stance in the available text.

Political context, Centre: The available text frames the protests as a dispute between the government and opposition without endorsing either side.

A Star Multimedia explainer examines why protests are taking place in Delhi and what dispute between the government and opposition is behind them. The available page text does not provide further details about the causes or outcome.

‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces

Reporting style, Informative: Investigative reporting grounded in testimony, satellite imagery and institutional sources, while presenting serious allegations with attribution.

Satellite imagery, UN research and Rohingya testimony indicate that since taking control of much of northern Rakhine State in 2024, the Arakan Army has been linked to the destruction and seizure of Rohingya villages, confinement in camps, forced labour, conscription, movement restrictions and other abuses. At least 800 hectares across 23 villages have reportedly been repurposed for camps, settlements or military infrastructure. Survivors describe being driven from their homes and seeing villages razed, while the AA denies neither the broader crisis nor its stated claim to represent Rakhine’s ethnic groups; responsibility for specific land destruction has not been confirmed by the UN investigative mechanism. The reporting warns that continuing displacement and land transformation could make Rohingya return and the survival of their communities in Myanmar increasingly impossible, against the backdrop of the military’s earlier persecution and an ongoing ICJ genocide case.

Photos: Rohingya refugees rally nine years after Myanmar exodus