Tens of thousands of Rohingya in Bangladesh protest, demanding safe return to Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh held a rally Tuesday to demand safe return to Myanmar. They fled nine years ago during a government crackdown.
Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are "suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is heartbreaking," according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Nine years after the 2017 atrocities, Rohingya are still being forced to flee because the genocide has never stopped.
A rescue worker said the site had been struck twice as civilians gathered for a meditation retreat.
More than 100 people were in the monastery for a religious retreat, according to a local resident.
Myanmar's military has conducted an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing region, killing 14 people, according to an opposition group and a resident.
A military airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in central Myanmar kills 14 people, opposition group and villagers say.
Min Zin was arrested on June 3 after the Chinese government invited him to attend a conference.
The flight comes as TPS for Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria, Myanmar and other countries ended following a U.S. Supreme Court order in June.