The Rohingya exodus and India

Hamida, 22, (center) and her son Mohammed, aged one, wait to receive food aid along with hundreds of other Rohingya refugees, at Kutupalong Refugee Camp, in Bangladesh. (Photo: UNHCR)

Over a million Rohingyas lived in Myanmar before the crisis in 2017. A majority of them are Muslims. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have fled and are still fleeing their homeland fearing persecution, in search of freedom.