Persecuted Rohingya Muslims find rare refuge in Chicago

For the majority of his life, Nasir Bin Zakaria was a citizen of nowhere.

He was 14 when he was kidnapped by militants at a bazaar in west Myanmar. "Kalah," they hissed at him, a racial slur used toward Rohingya — the ethnic Muslim minority residing among the country's Buddhist majority. He spent a night at the militant camp before escaping to Malaysia. He never saw his parents again.

Now, at 45, he's among almost 1,000 Rohingya refugees who've found a new home in Chicago, the majority of whom began arriving in 2013. The local group makes up nearly a fifth of the Rohingya refugees resettled across the country since 2010, U.S. Department of State officials said. (Courtesy of Chicago Tribune)