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- Rohingya Refugee Killed in Fighting between Bangladesh Army and Chakma Rebels
Rohingya Today | December 26, 2018 Cox's Bazaar – A Rohingya refugee working as a day labourer in a road construction project was killed in fighting between Bangladesh's army and Chakma separatist rebels in Bangladesh on Sunday (Dec 23), sources report. A clash broke out between the Ba...
- Bangladesh Police Beat up Refugee Woman and Obstruct Her from Justice
Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh Rohingya Today | December 19, 2018 Cox's Bazaar — Bangladesh policemen beat up a teenage woman in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazaar and subsequently, obstructed justice being served to her. Eighteen-year-old Salima Khatun was severely beaten up...
- Bangladesh Attempts to Revoke Rohingya 'Refugee' Status
Rohingya Today November 11, 2018 Cox's Bazaar — Bangladesh attempts to strip UNHCR-registered Rohingya refugees of their 'Refugee' Status, triggering them to go on 'Ration Strike' since November 1 out of fear of forced repatriation to Myanmar, refugees say. Approximately 250,000 Rohi...
- Rohingya Inmate Dies after Being Denied Treatment in Buthidaung Jail
RB News September 29, 2018 Buthidaung — An arbitrarily jailed Rohingya inmate has died in Buthidaung jail after being denied of proper medical treatments. The victim, identified as 'U Abu Shama, 50, s/o U Basu Meah' from Thayet Oak village in northern Maungdaw, was sentenced to 12-year imp...
- Two Girls Die after Myanmar Border Guards Shoot at Rohingya Boat
RB News September 29, 2018 Maungdaw — Two girls were killed and a few other people arrested when the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) opened fire at a Rohingya boat off the coast of 'Feran Furu (Mingalar Gyi)' village in northern Maungdaw at around 8 pm on Thursday (Sept 27). The two girl...
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Maung Zarni, leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday. | CHISATO TANAKA By Chisato Tanaka, Published by The Japan Times on October 25, 2018 A leader of a global network of activists for Rohingya Mu...
- Activists: US Stance on Rohingya Not Strong Enough
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar wait to carry food items from Bangladesh's border toward a no man's land where they set up refugee camps in Tombru, Bangladesh, Sept. 15, 2017. By William Gallo Voice of America September 25, 2018 Activists are criticizing a long-awaited U.S. State Departme...
- Rohingyas declare Aug 25 as ‘genocide day’
By Abdul Aziz Dhaka Tribune August 28, 2018 The UN likened the Aug 25 crackdown in the Rakhine state to genocide The Rohingyas have announced to observe August 25 as the "genocide day," a year after a Myanmar military crackdown forced more than 700,000 members of the ethnic minority...
- World fails to end Rohingya crisis: US Official
By Safvan Allahverdi Anadolu Agency July 31, 2018 'We keep saying 'never again', but it keeps happening,' says US representative to UN Economic and Social Council WASHINGTON -- The world has failed to end the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, where hundreds of thousands of people were dri...
- Rohingya cannot become ‘forgotten victims,’ says UN chief urging world to step up support
Secretary-General António Guterres (center) meets with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. (Photo: UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce) Published by UN News on July 11, 2018 Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard fr...
- Thousands of Rohingya Continue to Flee Violence in Myanmar
Rohingya girls carry firewood on their heads as they make their way through Kutupalong refugee camp, June 28, 2018, in Bangladesh. By Lisa Schlein | Published by Voice of America on July 4, 2018 GENEVA — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein reports thousands of Ro...
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By Sena Güler | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 1, 2018 Maung Zarni says he will boycott Beijing-sponsored events until the country reverses its 'troubling path' ANKARA -- A human rights activist and intellectual said he withdrew from a Beijing-sponsored forum in London to pro...
- Durbin Blasts Removal of Myanmar Sanctions From Defense Bill
Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar, has been a guest at the Capitol, including in Sept. 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo) By Niels Lesniewski | Published by Roll Call on July 31, 2018 Signs point to McConnell not allowing language targeting country also known as...
- Zeid calls for ICC probe into Myanmar Rohingya crisis
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. Published by UN News on July 4, 2018 Myanmar should “have some shame” after attempting to convince the world that it is willing to take back hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled an “ethnic cleansing c...
- UN rights expert ‘strongly recommends’ probe by International Criminal Court into ‘decades of crimes’ in Myanmar
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee. Published by UN News on June 27, 2018 The United Nations rights expert on Myanmar is “strongly” recommending that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate and prosecute those allege...
- Canada sanctions top Myanmar military over Rohingya abuses
Myanmar's military has forced some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims out of Rakhine state and across the border to Bangladesh since August 2017 By AFP June 25, 2018 Canada on Monday announced sanctions in coordination with the European Union against seven senior Myanmar officials over the Rohingy...
- EU sanctions Myanmar generals over Rohingya; Myanmar says two are fired
A Rohingya refugee is seen in Balukhali refugee camp at dawn near Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne By Robin Emmott, Antoni Slodkowski Reuters June 25, 2018 LUXEMBOURG/YANGON -- The European Union imposed sanctions on seven senior military officials from ...
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Auschwitz Appeal: EU, Don't repeat Old Europe's Collaboration. End Myanmar Rohingya Genocide
A human rights activist and genocide scholar from Burma Dr. Maung Zarni visits Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Extermination Camp and calls on European governments - Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Germany not to collaborate with the Evil - like they did with Hitler 75 ye...
- Press Release: New Rohingya Rights Campaign Means Business; Reaches Out To Unilever
Press Release 20th February 2017 The Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar have been subjected to gross human rights abuses that the United Nations say may constitute ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. A recent UN report detailing incidents of systematic gang-rapes by the My...
- An Open Letter to Unilever CEO Paul Polman
UNILEVER, MYANMAR AND THE ROHINGYA GENOCIDE 20th February, 2017 Dear Paul, Your willingness to listen and share your thoughts with us means a lot, not just to me, but to hundreds of concerned activists involved in the #WeAreAllRohingyaNow campaign. We would like to know if you ...
- Appeal to FREE Rohingya Detainees from the Immigration Detention Center in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Inside the Immigration Detention Center in Jeddah (Photo: Supplied by a Rohingya detainee) Appeal to FREE Rohingya Detainees from the Immigration Detention Center in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ro Nay San Lwin RB Campaign January 26, 2017 In th...
- Urgent Action: Myanmar - Torture fears for hundreds Rohingya detained
By Amnesty International January 12, 2017 URGENT ACTION TORTURE FEARS FOR HUNDREDS ROHINGYA DETAINED Hundreds of Rohingya have been detained as part of the ongoing security operation in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. To date, no official information about where the individuals a...
- Free Mamedullah
By Jamila Hanan RB Campaign January 7, 2017 This is Mamedullah, age 27. His full name is Muhammed Ullah but his friends and family call him Mamedullah for short. He is one of the few Rohingya to gain himself an education in his village in Maung Gyi Taung in Buthidaung township, against...
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Myanmar Gov.'s press conference in Yangon on "The Berlin Conference on Myanmar Genocide"
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- Event: Rohingya: The Silent Genocide?
22 Feb. Pembroke College, Oxford #OxfordUniversity Islamic Society is hosting an evening devoted to "#Rohingya: The Silent Genocide?". Senior General Min Aung Hlaing openly calls it "an unfinished business". Imagine what "a finished business" to them looks like.&n...
- Event: Genocide Memorial Day Programme
Programme Sunday 21st January 2018 Failures of International Institutions in preventing genocide: Myanmar’s Rohingya and Bosnian Genocides 12:00 Registration and lunch 13:00 – 13:10 Mr Sayed Jalal Masoomi - Quran...
- Event: Genocide: Why We Let It Happen
Genocide Panel Event Start: 29th January 2018, 5:00pm Genocide: Why We Let It Happen Genocide leaves the darkest stain on the conscience of humanity, yet today we are again witnessing international passivity in the face of the genocide in Myanmar. Why have we failed to learn our...
- Event: Myanmar's Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas
Myanmar's Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas 19 Jan 2018 5-7 pm School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London ...
- Event: Talk & Discussion with Dr Maung Zarni on Myanmar's slow-burning Genocide of the Rohingya
Talk & Discussion with Dr Maung Zarni. The discussion will be moderated by Sabina Alkire, Director of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 28 January 2018 5:30 pm Richard Benson Hall 276 Cowley Rd East Oxford ...
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By Dhaka Tribune Editorial November 5, 2017 How can we answer to our conscience knowing full-well what the Myanmar military is doing to the innocent Rohingya minority -- not even sparing children or pregnant women? Despite the on-going humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees ...
- Aung San Suu Kyi’s Clearest Act of Complicity
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during her visit to the Rakhine State in western Myanmar on Thursday. (Photo: Reuters) By The Editorial Board The New York Times November 3, 2017 “We all have to try our best to live peacefully,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who heads Myanmar’s civilian government, s...
- Trump needs to say something — and do something — about the assault on the Rohingya
Kulsuma Begum, 40, a Rohingya refugee, cries while recounting her story at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Friday. She said that her daughter was missing and that her husband and son-in-law were killed by Burmese soldiers. (Hannah Mckay/Reuters) By Editorial Board Th...
- Burma covers up its systematic abuse of a minority group
A Rohingya refugee from Burma. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images) By Editorial Board The Washington Post August 18, 2017 IN FEBRUARY, the United Nations released a report detailing the Burmese government’s human rights abuses against the long-suffering Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine sta...
- Aung San Suu Kyi is failing democracy in Myanmar: The Statesman
Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi smiles after a meeting with her Norwegian counterpart at Myanmar's Foreign Ministry in Naypyitaw, on July 6, 2017.PHOTO: REUTERS By Statesman July 19, 2017 In its editorial on July 18, the paper criticised Myanmar's State Counsellor, Aung San S...
- Why Is Myanmar Refusing A UN Probe If There Is No Rohingya Genocide?
(Photo: Reuters) By Carbonated.TV Editorial July 3, 2017 If Myanmar has nothing to hide, why isn't the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, allowing U.N. investigators to visit the country? When Myanmar transitioned from military rule to civi...
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Here is one way to analyse the changes in Burma: "I wonder how you assess the current events: Do you support the re-registration of th...
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By Nay San Lwin RB Article July 29, 2012 UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Mr Tomas Ojea Quintana will be visiting Burma from t...
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Turkey has collected roughly 60 million Turkish lira (US $33 million) for Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, according to the Sunday Zaman, ...
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Rohingya Today | December 26, 2018 Cox's Bazaar – A Rohingya refugee working as a day labourer in a road construction project...
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PRESS RELEASE: ROHINGYA DENIED ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN MYANMAR AND BANGLADESH 13th December 2018 A whole generation of Rohi...
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Press Release 20, November 2018 Myanmar, not Bangladesh, is responsible for failed repatriation On behalf of the Rohingya...
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"There are several hypocritical attempts ans steps taking by the government in Arakan to deceive the visiting UN Special Rapporteur, M...