‘What will we eat?’ – Myanmar Muslims struggle after camp closures
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 […]
U.S. ‘deeply troubled’ by U.N. report of Myanmar atrocities against Muslims
Reuters International FEB 6, 2017 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply troubled” by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar’s Rakhine State had committed atrocities against minority Muslims, the State Department said on Monday. Washington was still studying the report, but […]
Marriage an Uncertain Path to Citizenship for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
RFA Saturday 28th January, 2017 Lacking adequate food, shelter and sanitation, many Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar are marrying local men in the hope of achieving citizenship and basic services. Such marriages are illegal, and often involve polygamy, child marriage or abandonment, BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online […]
Malaysian PM sends off aid ship bound for Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar
Reuters International FEB 3, 2017 – FILE PHOTO – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives for a news conference at a mosque outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 5, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday sent off a […]
Malaysian PM leads protest against ‘genocide’ of Rohingya
Source: Associated Press By EILEEN NG Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, holds hands with other leaders during a protest… Read more KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak led a protest rally Sunday against what he called a “genocide” of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, as he […]
Hundreds of Rohingya flee Myanmar army crackdown to Bangladesh-sources
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – Men clean fishing nets near a Rohingya refugee camp outside Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar November 15, 2016. Picture taken on November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Serajul Quadir and Wa Lone DHAKA/SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a […]
Ending the Horror of Myanmar’s Abuse of Muslims
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDJAN. 25, 2016 The government of Myanmar’s departing president, Thein Sein, oversaw the systematic persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority — a human rights debacle that […]
The refugee crises you don’t hear about
By Bethan McKernan in news Roma or Romani people have been discriminated against for millennia and the tradition continues in Europe today. A camp of mostly Roma on the outskirts of Malmo in Sweden wasraided last month. More than 200 people’s homes were destroyed and the local authorities only have plans to […]
Burma’s Stateless Muslims: The World’s Most Persecuted Minority
Burma’s Stateless Muslims: The World’s Most Persecuted Minority By Katrin Kuntz in Sittwe, Burma Will Baxter/ DER SPIEGEL In Burma, thousands of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority are fleeing persecution from Buddhists. Abused by smugglers, they are being turned away from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Nuralam often sits awake […]
Who Are The Rohingyas And Why Are They Fleeing Myanmar?
Religion News Service | By Brian Pellot Posted: 05/19/2015 2:56 pm EDT Updated: 05/19/2015 2:59 pm EDT (RNS) Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims live in squalor in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State. That number has been falling fast as thousands flee by land and sea in search of better lives […]
Hundreds of Myanmar Muslims wash to shore in Indonesia
Ethnic Rohingya women and children whose boats were washed ashore on Sumatra Island board a military truck to be taken to a temporary shelter in Seunuddon, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Sunday. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas) MARGIE MASON | AP Published — Sunday 10 May 2015 Last update 10 May 2015 […]
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Comments on Muslims Expose Endemic Anti-Muslim Prejudice
by Tun Khin President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK HUFFINGTON POST Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s interview with the BBC during her visit to the UK, has shocked many of her admirers. Despite being repeatedly pressed to do so, she repeatedly avoided giving a clear unequivocal condemnation of the […]
Suu Kyi, rights activists criticize 2-child limit for Muslim Rohingya in parts of MyanmarA
Source: Washington Post. By AP YANGON, Myanmar — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Islamic leaders expressed dismay over decisions by authorities in western Myanmar to restore a two-child limit on a Muslim minority group, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists and follows accusations of “ethnic cleansing.” […]
Pogroms that we cannot ignore (what a Jew has to say about the Rohingyas)
By David Aaronovitch, April 21, 2013 The Holocaust, as we know, was not a sudden event and nor is it – as some well-meaning (mostly) religious people often suggest – incomprehensible. Its scale, its ambition was what was remarkable about it. How it came about is not amazing at all. […]
Thailand pushes 200 Rohingya back to sea
THAILAND’S navy has blocked more than 200 Rohingya refugees from entering the kingdom as part of a new crackdown on refugees from violence-hit western Myanmar (Burma), officials say. Thousands of Rohingya – members of a stateless Muslim minority group described by the UN as one of the most persecuted in […]
Trapped by Traffickers: Fleeing Rohingya Held Captive on the Thai Border
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. […]
King invites Iran president for summit in Makkah
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday sent an invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the emergency Islamic summit […]
Bangladesh: Refugee Aid Discouraged
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
Bangladesh reverses stance on Rohingyas
Source: Gulf Times. Bangladesh had widely welcomed the “brothers in trouble” as it witnessed first Rohingya refugee influx in 1978, but the realities stand reversed in 2012 when the Myanmar’s ethnic minority community is not welcome despite their exposure to sectarian violence in their homeland. This year Bangladesh has refused […]
Save Rohingya Muslims: The OIC
By Family Editorial Board Source: OnIslam The OIC Secretary General said that the recent restoration of democracy in Myanmar had raised hopes in the international community that oppression against Rohingya Muslims citizens would end and that they would be able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities. However, the renewed violence […]