TERRORISM DILEMMAS AND DEMOCRACY interpreting of news frames by audiences through the application of individual frames (De Vreese, 2005; D’Angelo & Kuypers, 2010). Within that context, this paper focuses on how The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s largest circulating English language newspaper, framed Rohingya refugees. Considering frames are observable along the entire communication process (de Vreese, 2005; D’Angelo & Kuypers, 2010; Gamson & Modigliani, 1987; Scheufele 1999); and that they are socially constructed, (McQuail, 2010) this study attempts to isolate media frames found within the newspaper text to glean prevailing social perceptions of the Rohingya among both the journalists or opinion-writers who construct the news frames and the English-speaking Bangladeshi elite influenced by them. The study analysed a random sample of 100 news stories published on The Daily Star website between 1 December 2011–31 November 2012; and a further 50 reports published between 1 August 2017–31 October 2017. The articles were selected through a site-specific Google search of The Daily Star website, and subjected to a detailed qualitative frame analysis to establish manifest and latent frames in the text. The analysis is qualitative and inductive, in that the study is aimed at identifying frames and not merely quantifying its prevalence. As de Ruyter and Scholl (1998) note ‘qualitative research does not measure, it provides insight’, thus arguing the importance of a qualitative frame analysis in producing insight, whereas a quantitative analysis focused on counting repetition would provide little insight in to the nuanced use of frames and their positioning within broader social-discourse. While the observations of a single publication are not universal, it is argued The Daily Star as the largest circulating English daily newspaper is central in illuminating the politico-ideological perspectives of Bangladeshi elite. Within the same vein, the detailed inductive study of frames in a singular publication also provides a crucial benchmark for future longitudinal studies on multiple English and vernacular press reports. Framing the Rohingya: Identity, legitimacy and belonging On 5 December 2012, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Myanmar on a three-day official visit—the first Bangladeshi Prime Minister to visit neighbouring Myanmar in eight years. The visit was an attempt to foster a relationship with the new Burmese government, and its reformist President Thein Sein, after decades of military rule and isolation. Notable on the agenda was the thorny issue of repatriating Burmese Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. ‘...[R]epatriation of Rohingya refugees, energy cooperation, maritime dispute, trade and connectivity is high on the agenda,’ The Daily Star reported. During this optimistic era of renewed bilateral ties, The Daily Star’s ‘othering’ of the Rohingya emerged though three fundamental frame sets: PACIFIC JOURNALISM REVIEW 25 (1 & 2) 2019 265