Dumping a battered and traumatized people on Bhasan Char to face yet another threat to their survival is not a solution.
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Southeast Asia
Facebook’s ‘Virtual Coercive’ Implicated in Rohingya Genocide
Is access to Facebook a pillar of free speech if the platform can be harnessed for the purpose of eliminating an entire population?
Rohingya Refugees Pushed to a Frontline of Climate Change
“At Cox’s Bazar, five thousand acres of forest have already been destroyed.”
Myanmar: Nobelist Suu Kyi silent as Rohingya Crisis Rolls On; let’s at Least help the Refugees
I sneaked into Myanmar on a tourist visa because the military junta running the country made it almost impossible to travel as a journalist. So I thought I was the only foreign reporter in the capital of Yangon in July of 1995. I was relaxing one morning when BBC TV ran a bulletin that famous […]
Army of Buddhist Burma made ‘Systematic’ Crackdown Plan for Muslim Rohingyas
‘Fortify Rights’ conducted months of study in Myanmar and Bangladesh
Burma General on Hot Seat over charges Army Raped Rohingya Muslim Women
The UN has accused Senior General Min Aung Hlaing of numerous crimes
Buddhist Burma Bulldozing Muslim Rohingya Villages: Satellite Photos
TeleSur | – – Human rights groups that fear the Burmese government is destroying crime scenes before any credible investigation takes place. Satellite imagery shows at least 28 Rohingya villages have been leveled between December and February. However, reports produced by some human rights groups place the figure at 55. Myanmar’s military, aided by Buddhist […]
Ignoring Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing is Creating another Palestine
Middle East Monitor | – – The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was the stark warning issued by a delegation from the Middle East in a meeting with the Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament on Tuesday. The members of the delegation included representatives […]
Over 700 Rohingya Children Killed by Myanmar Military
TeleSur | – – An estimate from Doctors Without Borders shows that at least 6,700 refugees have been killed during the first month of militarized persecution. At least 730 Rohingya children under the age of five have been mercilessly slaughtered by Myanmar police forces in an almost six-month crusade against the Muslim community, Doctors Without […]