16 Mar 2016

Plight of the Rohingya

From Nights, 7:12 pm on 16 March 2016
A Rohingya boy waits with other illegal migrants at a temporary detention center in Langkawi, Malaysia.

A Rohingya boy waits with other illegal migrants at a temporary detention center in Langkawi, Malaysia. Photo: AFP

The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim group in Myanmar who are often described as the world's most persecuted minority.

Bryan Crump gets the update on their struggles and migration crisis from Matthew Smith, executive director of Fortify Rights: