Source: Mizzima olar power for off-grid rural populations is to be set up by SPCG Public Company Ltd., The Bangkok Post reported last week. “Electricity supply in Myanmar is falling short of demand that has grown rapidly.” said the Thai energy company’s chairwoman Wandee Khunchornyakong to the newspaper. “The country’s […]
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma Over 80 Rohingyas, fleeing violence and persecution in Arakan state, were detained by Burmese authorities on Wednesday in a coastal town near the Thai border, after traffickers abandoned them en route to Malaysia. The Rohingyas, including 13 children and eight women, were taken for questioning by […]
Source: DNA The U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern on Monday over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar and called upon its government to address reports of human rights abuses by some authorities. The 193-nation General Assembly approved by consensus a non-binding resolution, which Myanmar said last month […]
Source: Guardian Muslim group languishes in makeshift homes with no work, no schools and no citizenship rights from Burmese government. The helicopter cuts a sharp arc away from the sea and sweeps over pagoda-topped hills and dusty farmland until a mass of dirty white tents comes into view. Soon throngs […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said yesterday that he would soon visit Myanmar as the head of a high-level delegation including OIC foreign ministers as part of efforts to stop the attacks against Rohingya Muslims. Addressing a press conference, […]
Source: Phuket Wan PHUKET: Rohingya fleeing ethnic cleansing and starvation in Burma are driving a surge in business for people traffickers on the Thai border with Malaysia. The would-be refugees, who arrive by boat, are imprisoned in primitive conditions until someone pays for their passage across the border into Malaysia. […]
Source: The Daily Star We have learnt from newspaper reports that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on November 13 described the violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal immigration from Bangladesh had to be stopped. Dhaka has expressed surprise at […]
Source: Toronto Star Author: Olivia Ward For decades, Burma’s Rohingya Muslims have suffered discrimination and harassment, and recently, arson, rape, violent attacks and murder. Dozens have drowned in an effort to escape by sea; others have been pushed back from Bangladesh, or kept in bleak camps where malnutrition is rife. […]
Huff Post:Kristin Wright. In one brief visit on Monday morning, President Obama drew crucial attention to one of the world’s most egregious human rights tragedies, the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. A Muslim minority situated along the country’s western coast, the Rohingyas have been brutally targeted […]
Source: Hindustan Times President Barack Obama will press Myanmar leaders during an upcoming trip to restore calm to the western part of their country and bring instigators of ethnic violence there to justice, White House officials said on Thursday. Obama leaves on Saturday for a trip to Asia that will […]
Source: Alertnet // Emma Batha A girl joins others collecting pieces of metal from the rubble of a neighbourhood in Pauktaw township, in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, that was burned in recent violence October 27, 2012. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun By Emma Batha LONDON (AlertNet) – U.S. President Barack Obama must press […]
Source: RTT News Nearly 100 people reported missing after a rickety boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar to Malaysia sank off the Bangladesh coast early on Wednesday morning, reports quoting officials said. A top official of the Bangladesh Border Guard said the vessel was carrying around 110 passengers when […]
Source: The Irrawaddy VIENTIANE—In a meeting with President Thein Sein on Tuesday at the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Summit in Laos, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague urged “all political parties in Burma to do what they can to end the violence and address the issue of Rohingya citizenship.” Hague and […]
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver SunNovember 6, 2012 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being accused of hypocrisy for refusing to take sides in the ongoing persecution of minority […]
Source: Pakistan Observer Yangon—Rohingya groups from across the world have signed a statement calling for a Global Day of Action on November 8 in support of human rights for the Rohingya people of Burma. “We call upon all organisations and individuals who support human rights for the Rohingya to unite […]
Source: The Telegraph Burma has acknowledged the persecution of its stateless Rohingya Muslim minority and is considering giving citizenship to thousands of members of the group as a first step to finding a solution to the conflict with local Rakhine Buddhists. The government’s search for a ‘win-win’ solution to the […]
Source: Washingtonpost YANGON, Myanmar — The authorities have ordered people in strife-torn western Myanmar to surrender guns, swords and other weapons to the police within three days or face legal action. The announcement in the state-run Myanma Ahlin daily on Thursday said that some groups of people in the state […]
Source: The Independependent Revelations of widespread violence against ethnic minorities in Burma’s north-western Rakhine state fleetingly drew the eye of the world’s media last week. Headlines and op-eds reflected the shock felt by the international community at the slaughter of the local Rohingya population and other predominantly Muslim groups, such […]
Source: The Hindu Jakarta, Oct 30: ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan has warned that sectarian bloodshed in Myanmar could radicalise minority Rohingya Muslims there and destabilise the whole of Southeast Asia. Surin called on the international community to help after clashes in the western state of Rakhine between Muslims and […]
Source: Telegraph As many as 3,000 Rohingya Muslims were reported to be waiting off the coast of Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh in around 50 boats after fleeing attacks by Buddhists in Burma’s Rakhine state. According to official reports, 84 people have been killed and more than 28,000 displaced in a […]