The Rohingya Crisis is Not Just Bangladesh’s Responsibility

In 2015, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was seen as a beacon of democracy and human rights…

Conflict and Stabilization Operations

Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance

Every Action Counts: How NGOs are Supporting Myanmar’s Displaced—Part 1

Home to the world’s longest ongoing internal armed conflict, Myanmar is a country mired by political strife, inequality, and violence. Its people…

InterAction Launches Choose to Invest FY2019 with Bipartisan Support

For the last 50 years, U.S. leadership and investment in international development and humanitarian assistance have proved instrumental in helping…

InterAction Members Raise Awareness on the Five-Year Anniversary of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

The Rohingya refugee crisis has entered its fifth year, with over 1.1 million Rohingya displaced from Myanmar since an…

Morgan Martinez

Seven Years Later: Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day

This month marks seven years since the 2017 “clearance operation” when Myanmar’s military forces, the Tatmadaw, unleashed waves of violence against Rohingya ethnic minorities in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The conflict triggered the expulsion of over 700,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh, marking the largest and fastest influx into the country. The U.S. government later determined that these attacks constituted genocide and crimes against humanity.

Transition Initiatives

U.S. Institute of Peace