Why Rohingya refugees are protesting in Cox’s Bazar, 9 years after genocide

On Monday, hundreds of Rohingya refugees gathered at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh demanding justice and the right to return to their homes, on the ninth anniversary of the genocide perpetrated against them in Myanmar. Since then, more than one million stateless Rohingya have remained stranded in tightly packed camps in Bangladesh’s coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, where living conditions are steadily deteriorating as international aid declines.The presence of the Rohingya in Bangladesh has made the South Asian country home to one of the world’s largest refugee populations.Key bodies and actors have deemed the Rohingya crisis a genocide, including United Nations officials and former United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2022, but what action has the international community taken, and is there any resolution in sight?Who are the Rohingya?As of 2021, there were an estimated 120,000 Rohingya, a Muslim-majority ethnic group, internally displaced in Myanmar. They have been described by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as “one of, if not the, most discriminated people in the world”.Before 2017, there were more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar.While Myanmar is an ethnica...