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Dr. Azeem Ibrahim

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim is the Director of Special Initiatives at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington D.C. and author of “The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide” (Hurst, 2017). Twitter: @AzeemIbrahim

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Will Biden call the Rohingya crisis a genocide?

The Trump administration stopped short of categorizing the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar as a genocide, despite it being the clearest example of one for at least two decades.

January 30, 2021

Moving refugees to Bashan Char is not a solution to Bangladesh’s Rohingya problem

Now that the government of Bangladesh seems finally to have recognized the fact that the Rohingya will be in the country for the long haul, it has started looking for long-term options for managing the huge refugee population.

December 18, 2020