'R' is for Rohingya: Sesame Street creates new Muppets for refugees
âRâ is for Rohingya: Sesame Street creates new Muppets for refugees By Hannah Beech New York Times,Updated December 19, 2020, 2:32 p.m. Email to a Friend The Muppet gang includes (front left to right) Oscar the Grouch, The Count, Ernie, Bert, Prairie Dawn, (back left to right) Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Grover. BANGKOK â Six-year-old twins Noor and Aziz live in the largest refugee camp in the world. They are Rohingya Muslims who escaped ethnic cleansing in their native Myanmar for refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. They are also Muppets. On Thursday, Sesame Workshop, the nonp...