Rohingya crisis: US diplomat quits advisory panel
Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on the Rohingya crisis. He claimed the […]
Rohingya crisis: Burma quotes Donald Trump in dismissing persecution of Muslim minority as ‘fake news’
State continues to deny genocide accusations and borrows US President’s most enduring catchphrase – despite White House condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’ Hannah Beech Rohingya refugees walk towards a refugee camp after […]
Exclusive – Returning Rohingya may lose land, crops under Myanmar plans
Reuters International This content was published on October 22, 2017 10:24 AMOct 22, 2017 – 10:24 FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees, who crossed the border from Myanmar two days before, walk […]
Buddhist protesters block aid to Muslim Rohingya
Mob in Myanmar blocks relief supplies while fatal road accident hits truck carrying food to refugees in Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees wait for aid in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters] Police in Myanmar have clashed with a mob blocking an aid shipment in Rakhine state while nine people have died in […]
Genocide in Burma
Source: Washington Monthly by Joshua Kurlantzick Of all the ethnic, racial, and religious minorities in the world, wrote the Economist last year, the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, may well be the most persecuted people on the planet. Today nearly two million Rohingya live in western Myanmar and in Bangladesh. […]
Rohingya and the Burmese generals
Nov 17,2015 – RAMZI BAROUD – JORDAN TIMES Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy. “The official results are still […]
Burma’s Rohingya minority get attention from Obama’s visit
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. […]