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The Myanmar military and Suu Kyi have a lot to answer for crimes against humanity
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Photo:Screenshot/CBC News While calling for action to combat sexual violence against women in societies around the world, Angelina Jolie...November 16, 2017
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New arrivals in Bangladesh’s Ukhiya area right after crossing the border with Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state. Photo: UNHCR/Vivian The...October 24, 2017
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The world must wake up to the gravity of Rohingya crisis- Khalilah Ali
Khalilah Ali, activist and author, has stepped up her latest humanitarian effort- to raise awareness about the plight of Rohingya refugees and the need for U.S support for the persecuted community. The former wife of legendary...October 7, 2017 2361 0 -
UN: Rohingya refugees now number half a million in the face of ‘unacceptable’ crisis
The United Nations is reporting “bone chilling” accounts of violence expreience by Rohingya refugees whose number has now swelled to half a million as they escape Myanmar’s state persecution and flee into neighboring Bangladesh. The humanitarian...September 29, 2017 1213 0 -
A Rohingya scholar recalls Jinnah’s affinity for the community
The Rohingya cause is lost, lamented Dr. Wakar Uddin’s father on learning of Mr. Jinnah’s death in 1948. Along with a Rohingya delegation, he had met Mr. Jinnah, the Quaid-i-Azam, twice in Dacca before independence. They...September 16, 2017 1863 0 -
UN Security Council to hold urgent meeting amid Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingyas
Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar persecution pour into Bangldesh Photo: Saikat Biswas/UN Migration Agency Britain and Sweden have requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council against the backdrop of a growing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar,...September 12, 2017 1129 0 -
UN: Myanmar’s cruelty against Rohingyas is ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’
A group of Rohingya people Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Wikimedia Commons The United Nations has condemned the ongoing security operation targeting the Rohingya minority population in Myanmar as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The High...September 11, 2017 1414 0 -
Protests in Washington D.C. against Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingyas
Back-to-back protest demonstrations outside Myanmar’s embassy in Washington D.C. this week urged the United States to stop massacre of the Rohingya community, which the UN and human rights bodies say face state persecution. On Friday, Americans...September 8, 2017 1617 0 -
Malala asks Suu Kyi why is she silent over Rohingya massacres
Two men sit under the the remnants of their homes in Sittwe, the provincial capital of Myanmar’s western Rakhine State. Photo Credit IRIN/Khine Thurein/UN Condemning Myanmar’s ongoing genocide of Rohingya Muslims as “shameful,” Malala Yousafzai, the...September 4, 2017 1525 0
