Bangladesh, Aug. 26 -- Originally published on August 23, 2019

Eight years after the mass exodus of Rohingya people from Myanmar,their future looks as uncertain as ever. Uprooted from their homelandby acampaign of targeted violence launched by the Myanmar military in August 2017, some 700,000 ethnic Rohingya refugees sought safetyjust across the border inBangladesh. They joined thousands of others from the community who had fled earlier episodes of violence and abuse. Today there arenearly one million Rohingyaliving in overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar-now the largest refugee settlement in the world.

While the scale and speed of this population movement were unprecedented, this was not the first time the Rohingya had been driven out of M...