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 […]
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 UNHCR High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi gestures during a news conference at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (reuters_tickers) By Donna Airoldi BANGKOK (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. refugee agency urged Myanmar on Friday to grant citizenship […]
Source: Reuters By Donna Airoldi | BANGKOK The head of the U.N. refugee agency urged Myanmar on Friday to grant citizenship to the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority in the Asian country where […]
Reuters International JUN 8, 2017 – A Rohingya girl sits outside her shelter in a refugee camp outside Kyaukpyu in Rakhine state, Myanmar May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun […]
Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse in Yangon Authorities in Myanmar have charged three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street after the local school where they used to […]
Reuters International MAY 30, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: A boy sit in a burnt area after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western […]
Reuters International MAY 12, 2017 – Parmaukkha talks to media during a press conference about a scuffle between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims in Yangon, Myanmar, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya […]
Ultra-nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha has been spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric across Myanmar for years. Cosmopolitan Mandalay is at the heart of this hostility – which many fear is here to stay In a cluttered room in a monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, a group of crimson-robed monks and […]
Source: Reuters By Wa Lone | YANGON A Myanmar Buddhist monk renowned for his anti-Muslim sermons travelled to Rakhine State on Wednesday, an official said, sparking concern over religious tension […]
Source: NPR BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN AND ASHLEY WESTERMAN With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting at home with some other women from her village in western Myanmar’s […]
Leader is asked if she would be remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country Jon Sharman 2 hours ago 2 comments Aung […]