Muslim Rohingya
Officials say boat carrying Rohingya Muslims lands in Indonesia
Indonesian authorities said a boat carrying 20 men believed to be Rohingya Muslims landed on the Northeastern shore of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today.
Tens of thousands turn out for Myanmar interfaith rally
Tens of thousands of people fill a football stadium in Yangon for an interfaith rally, a show of unity in a country seared by ethnically-charged violence against the Muslim Rohingya on its western border.
Is South Asia the new Middle East?
The Middle East is often viewed as a region waylaid by feelings of collective humiliation and violent rivalries, both between and within countries.
Where is our Rohingya Policy?
What we have today in the Rakhine State of Myanmar is a regime of ethnic cleansing. This latest round of pogrom of the Rohingyas is the result of the international community's abject lack of action.
‘Rohingya women, children being massacred by Myanmar troops’
Rohingya children and women are being massacred, burnt alive and are fleeing their homes as reports of renewed persecution against Rohingya Muslims living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar dominates international and local media.
3 Rohingyas drown, 3 missing in Naf river
Two women and a minor boy of Rohingya community drown and three others remain missing as a boat carrying the fleeing Rohingyas capsizes in Naf River in Hwaikong Bazar area of Teknaf.
UN worried
Expressing deep concern at reports of the killing of civilians in security operations in Rakhine State, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated Myanmar's responsibility to provide security and assistance to those in need.
Apartheid in our neighbourhood!
The expression “apartheid”, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means racial segregation, especially in South Africa. I am not sure if apartheid has, in real terms...
Myanmar must change tack on Rohingyas
The very fact that Myanmar has termed the recent militant attack on its security forces as being the work of “extremist Bengali insurgents” underlines the very crux of the problem.
Officials say boat carrying Rohingya Muslims lands in Indonesia
Indonesian authorities said a boat carrying 20 men believed to be Rohingya Muslims landed on the Northeastern shore of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today.
Tens of thousands turn out for Myanmar interfaith rally
Tens of thousands of people fill a football stadium in Yangon for an interfaith rally, a show of unity in a country seared by ethnically-charged violence against the Muslim Rohingya on its western border.
Is South Asia the new Middle East?
The Middle East is often viewed as a region waylaid by feelings of collective humiliation and violent rivalries, both between and within countries.
Where is our Rohingya Policy?
What we have today in the Rakhine State of Myanmar is a regime of ethnic cleansing. This latest round of pogrom of the Rohingyas is the result of the international community's abject lack of action.
‘Rohingya women, children being massacred by Myanmar troops’
Rohingya children and women are being massacred, burnt alive and are fleeing their homes as reports of renewed persecution against Rohingya Muslims living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar dominates international and local media.
3 Rohingyas drown, 3 missing in Naf river
Two women and a minor boy of Rohingya community drown and three others remain missing as a boat carrying the fleeing Rohingyas capsizes in Naf River in Hwaikong Bazar area of Teknaf.
Apartheid in our neighbourhood!
The expression “apartheid”, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means racial segregation, especially in South Africa. I am not sure if apartheid has, in real terms...
UN worried
Expressing deep concern at reports of the killing of civilians in security operations in Rakhine State, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated Myanmar's responsibility to provide security and assistance to those in need.
Myanmar must change tack on Rohingyas
The very fact that Myanmar has termed the recent militant attack on its security forces as being the work of “extremist Bengali insurgents” underlines the very crux of the problem.
Football: Malaysia cancels two matches with Myanmar over Rohingya crackdown
Malaysia's national soccer team has cancelled two friendly under-22 matches with Myanmar, in protest against the Southeast Asian nation's bloody crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a team spokesman said on Thursday.