NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 27, 2026

Q: Rohingyas who fled genocidal violence in Myanmar are now heading out to sea, desperate to escape the growing hunger and poor prospects of refugee camps in Bangladesh. Hundreds have died attempting to reach a better life in countries like Malaysia or Indonesia. Where is Bangladesh?

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Q: The Rohingyas experienced decades of ethnic and religious persecution in Myanmar, formerly called Burma. What is the dominant religion in Myanmar?

A. Buddhism

B. Christianity

C. Hindusim

D. Islam

A. More than 87% of the people in Myanmar are Buddhists, about 6% are Christians, about 4% are Muslims, and 0.5% are Hindus. Rohingyas follow Islam, as do 91% of the people in Bangladesh, where more than 730,000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar’s state-sanctioned violence.

Q: Rohingya refugees are not permitted to work or go to school in Bangladesh, and refugee camp food rations have shrunk as international aid declined. Poverty is widespread in Bangladesh, which has 3,450 people for every square mile of land. Which of these city-states is the most densely populated area in the world?

A. Hong Kong

B. Macau

C. Monaco

D. Singapore

B. China’s semi-autonomous Macau has 56,530 people per square mile. It is followed by Monaco in Europe with 49,000 people per square mile, Southeast Asia’s Singapore with 21,500 per square mile, and China’s semi-autonomous Hong Kong with 18,290 per square mile.

Q: The United Nations said nearly 900 Rohingyas were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2025, out of more than 6,500 who attempted the sea crossing. Where did most of last year’s 7,904 missing or dead migrants disappear?

A. Caribbean Sea

B. Central America

C. Mediterranean Sea

D. Sahara Desert

C. More than four out of 10 fatalities and disappearances came on ?sea routes to Europe, according to the UN. Many of those were so-called "invisible shipwrecks," in which boats were lost at sea and never found.

Q: While Rohingyas risk their lives to get to Malaysia or Indonesia, those majority-Muslim countries often block the stateless refugees. Myanmar passed a 1982 law denying Rohingyas citizenship. Which other groups have been made stateless by governments before suffering genocidal violence?

A. Armenians

B. Jews

C. Romani

D. All of the above

D. About a million Armenians who had been denied citizenship were killed in Turkey during and after World War I. In 1935, the Nazis revoked the citizenship of German Jews and declared Romani “enemies of the race-based state.” Both groups were among the 8 million people murdered in the Holocaust of World War II.