As Hope Fades, Rohingya Refugees Search for the Missing

Some seven months after the start of a campaign by the Myanmar military, tens of thousands remain missing or unaccounted for

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh—The last time Nabi Hossain saw his older sister, they were running through rice paddies to escape machine-gun fire from a Myanmar military ambush.

Somewhere in the chaos, he says, they got separated.

Now at a refugee camp in Bangladesh with tens of thousands of other Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, Mr. Hossain spends...