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Malaysia has become one of the most popular destinations for the Rohingya people driven from their homelands in Myanmar. They are often smuggled into Kuala Lumpur, where they arrive with hopes as high as the megacity’s glass-and-steel towers. Muhammad Noor knows all too well the bill of goods human traffickers have sold his brethren. They […]
Thomson Reuters The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military’s violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear “the hallmarks of a genocide.” Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their villages into Bangladesh since the Myanmar military’s crackdown following Aug. 25 attacks by Rohingya insurgents. An Associated Press report Thursday detailed […]
Paula Bronstein/Getty Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dismissed human rights activists as “just a noisey bunch” in a conversation with Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose country is going through a crisis with 655,000 stateless Muslims fleeing to escape persecution. Human rights groups also strongly condem Duterte’s drug war which has killed a suspected 3,900. […]
Thomson Reuters Myanmar’s government has been embroiled in battle of rhetoric over its alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, but unlike the west, China sees an opportunity amid the affair. For China, Myanmar’s crisis is a gateway for it to pursue similar economic and infrastructure strategies it has undertaken in Africa in order to extend […]
Thomson Reuters Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to complete the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a crackdown from Myanmar’s army into Bangladesh last year. The UN has called Myanmar’s army crackdown a “textbook” example of ethnic cleansing, and over 650,000 Rohingya have fled. The UN is now warning that Rohingya […]
It was night by the time the whispers reached Mohammad Yunus. The Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military, had killed a group of men they had taken from Yunus’ Rohingya village earlier in the week. Now, they were returning with a fresh list, went the village rumor. And Yunus’ name was on it. Yunus, his wife and their […]
Thomson Reuters Myanmar’s president called for a reform to the country’s military-drafted constitution and justice for recognized minorities as over half a million Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state have been pushed out by the military. In Myanmar, the President’s post is largely ceremonial, and the military holds much more political power. Some say the […]
Opinion: Calls for help on social media are well-intentioned but counterproductive. https://media.wired.com/photos/59fb49c2536345492f995359/master/pass/RohingyaCampsHP-868938116.jpg Feed: All Latest
Four Rohingya refugees were killed after a group of up to eight elephants tore through an area of forest land in southern Bangladesh. The victims, a woman and three children, were building a makeshift shelter at the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, according to local police. READ MORE: At least 5 police killed after […]
A photographer in Bangladesh has captured the heartbreak of Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar. The image shows an unnamed father crying and clinging to his son’s body. The two had just crossed the border-defining Naf river, which has been the scene of dozens of drownings in the last two months. Instagram Embed:http://instagram.com/p/BaEF8fdHLjv/embed/Width: 658px Indranil […]
