Bangladesh holds international conference on Rohingya: Here’s what to know | Conflict News

Bangladesh is holding a two-day conference in Cox’s Bazar on the persecuted Rohingya community before a high-level conference on the Rohingya refugee crisis in September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

The meeting, organised by Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, comes eight years after more than a million Rohingya, many of whom are now stateless, were forced to flee Myanmar and take shelter in Bangladesh. They fled a Myanmar military crackdown that killed…