A man stretches his arms out for food at a refu­gee camp for Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh on Sept. 9. Speaking in Geneva on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration put the number fleeing Burma at 370,000 but admitted that it could rise sharply. With camps full, many of the Rohingya refugees like Nurjahan have simply sat down on the roadside. On Tuesday, Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, visited the camps in the Cox’s Bazar area of the country, which has sheltered thousands of the stateless Rohingya refugees since an earlier exodus in the 1990s. But with Suu Kyi’s continued reluctance to speak out on the Rohingyas’ plight and the ensuing human rights crisis, her star has begun to dim.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2017 10:06 UTC