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UN agencies and Bangladesh’s Health Ministry began a massive cholera immunization campaign Tuesday to stem a possible outbreak of the waterborne disease among more than a half million Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh. CBC | Health News
Published time: 30 Sep, 2017 00:29 Over half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled the violence in Rakhine State in Myanmar to Bangladesh in the past month, placing enormous strain on aid agencies and residents across the border alike. Over 501,800 new arrivals have been recorded at Cox Bazar, Bangladesh since the latest outbreak […]
Published time: 28 Sep, 2017 11:56 Myanmar will begin “verifying” how many of the near half a million Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh it will take back, the Ministry of Information said Thursday. Some 480,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Rakhine to Bangladesh since August 25. The new arrivals are living in increasingly desperate conditions in over-crowded […]
Thomson Reuters COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water available for the huge numbers of them fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warned on Sunday. Nearly 410,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled from western Rakhine state to Bangladesh to […]
Amnesty International has released a series of satellite images it says demonstrates that Myanmar’s military is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim population. “The evidence is irrefutable – the Myanmar security forces are setting northern Rakhine State ablaze in a targeted campaign to push the Rohingya people out of Myanmar. […]
Thomson Reuters YANGON (Reuters) – China has endorsed Myanmar’s offensive against Rohini Muslim insurgents, though the UN secretary-general said the operation, which has forced nearly 400,000 people to flee to Bangladesh, was best described as “ethnic cleansing”. The Myanmar military offensive in the western state of Rakhine was triggered by a series of guerrilla attacks […]
Published time: 3 Sep, 2017 11:09 Edited time: 3 Sep, 2017 11:23 Moscow Muslims have gathered on Sunday in front of the Myanmar Embassy in solidarity with Rohingya Muslims who claim to be persecuted in the troubled northwest of the country, according to photos and videos on social media. The rally took place in front […]
