Rohingya

No one gets to decide where they are born, but if people had the power to choose, no one would want to be a Rohingya from north-west Burma.

People are beginning to question the judgement of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s icon of democracy, and an interview she gave about the Rohingya will add to those doubts.

Thailand’s media is taking up the search for answers following an exclusive Channel 4 News report on the trafficking of Burmese refugees.

Thai authorities arrest and charge a suspected human trafficker, accused of masterminding the sale of hundreds of Burmese migrants into slavery aboard fishing boats.

Channel 4 News has investigated how tens of thousands of them desperate to reach safe haven are falling victim to criminal gangs and ending up as hostages in prison camps.

Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.

Journalists are not universally admired, but as I found after making a film about the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims, what we do often pricks the consciences of the poweful.

As Thailand struggles with an influx of Rohingya Muslims from Burma, John Sparks visits a camp where conditions are desperately over-crowded, with barely room to sit.

Thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled religious persection in Burma have been locked up in overcrowded caged cells in detention centres in Thailand.

Channel 4 News gains access to a Thai detention centre where thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled religious persecution in Burma are being forced to live in squalid conditions.

Aung San Suu Kyi has remained silent on the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims. With her criticism of “discrimination”, is she now changing her tune?

As a human rights group accuses the Burmese authorities of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, the EU lifts its sanctions against Burma.

When Burma elected its first democratic president, it was the dawn of a new era. But the country is in a downward spiral of ethnic violence, reports Asia Correspondent John Sparks.

The United Nations has called them ‘one of the most persecuted minorities in the world’ – Burma’s Rohingya people. The stateless, Muslim community live among the majority Buddhists in Rakhine state. Flimsy wooden boats packed with people desperate to flee are now arriving off the coast of Thailand every day. But instead of giving temporary…

On the day Barack Obama makes a historic visit to Burma, John Sparks explores stories of a massacre against Rohingya Muslims in the north-west of the country.