Source: The New York Times By MEGAN SPECIA A military crackdown against the Rohingya ethnic group has driven hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from their homes in Myanmar. The Rohingya […]
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias Sep 13, 2017 As tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar and global criticism mounts over the civilian government’s silence on the crisis, the country’s top […]
Source: BBC News By Fergal Keane The monks of Ma Ba Tha regard the international media with deep suspicion. The leader of the organisation, Ashin Wirathu, covered his head and […]
. Reuters International This content was published on September 14, 2017 Rohingya refugees walk on a muddy path at Thaingkhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. […]
Source: BBC News Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to miss a key UN debate next week as criticism grows of her handling of a crisis involving […]
Source: NPR BY COLIN DWYER By the latest estimates, roughly 313,000 refugees have fled Myanmar across the border into Bangladesh in a span of just over two weeks. Hardship awaits the fleeing […]
Source: Associated Press By AL-EMRUN GARJON and TOFAYEL AHMEDo COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladeshi prime minister was traveling Tuesday to struggling refugee camps that have absorbed hundreds of […]
Source: Pakistan Today By GHULAM NOOR JEHANIAN Anchor Amir Liaquat has been arrested in Myanmar by the immigration authorities, Bol News reported on Saturday. In his conversation with the TV channel […]
Arakan army. Are you k idding? HAKKI ÖCAL @hakkiocal A Rohingya refugee woman with her child walks on a muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, Sept. 7. The drama of the Arakan Muslims didn’t start now. Nor has what they call the Arakan insurgency happened in […]
Abraham Lincoln who said: ‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’ His quote sadly now seems to fit Aung San Suu KyI […]
Source: Time Pakistani education advocate Malala Yousafzai has called on fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “tragic and shameful” treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In […]
Reuters LONDON: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, called on her fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “shameful” treatment of the Rohingya Muslims […]
Source: BBC News More than 18,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have entered Bangladesh in less than a week, aid workers say. The crisis erupted after Rohingya […]
Associated Press VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis decried the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and prayed they receive “full rights.” The pontiff said Sunday there was “sad news about the […]
FILE PHOTO: People belonging to Rohingya Muslim community sit outside their makeshift houses on the outskirts of Jammu, May 5, 2017. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – All of an estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India are illegal immigrants, even […]
Source: ET For the last few years, Rohingya Muslims have found themselves in the awkward place where some of the world’s stateless peoples have lived and subsisted — largely unnoticed and unassisted by the international community. Wedged uncomfortably between the borders of their native Myanmar and Bangladesh — their first […]
Reuters International JULY 15, 2017 A Rohingya boy walks at a refugee camp in Sitwe, in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Simon Lewis KYAR GAUNG TAUNG, Myanmar, 2017 – Rohingya Muslim women lined up to tell reporters of missing husbands, mothers […]
Source: Associated Press By ESTHER HSUTAN SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist demonstrators on Wednesday protested the arrival of the U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar for an information-gathering trip in […]
Reuters International JULY 12, 2017 By Simon Lewis SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar pledged on Wednesday “no restrictions” on journalists visiting the troubled state of Rakhine this week, in the first official trip to include foreign reporters to mostly Rohingya Muslim villages affected by violence since October. Eighteen Myanmar […]
THE United States on Monday called on Burma (Myanmar) to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Burma‘s Rakhine state. The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council established the inquiry in March, but Aung San Suu Kyi, the de […]