Ignoring Genocide: Rohingya People Deserve to Live

Mar 9, 2013 | Refugee

ASEAN must break away from its silence and tediously guarded policies and western countries must be confronted by their own civil societies: no normalization with Rangoon when innocent men, women and children are being burned alive in their own homes, writes Ramzy...

Thai military accused of shooting fleeing refugees

Mar 9, 2013 | Refugee

By South-East Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel, ABCThe Thai military has been accused of shooting Rohingya asylum seekers fleeing conflict in western Burma. People who were on the boat have told the ABC that they jumped into the water and swam when Thai authorities began...

Nitaqat rules for Palestinians and Turkistanis eased

Mar 6, 2013 | Refugee

JEDDAH: ARAB NEWSThe Labor Ministry said yesterday it would consider employment of four Palestinians and Turkistanis equal to one foreign worker in the Nitaqat system.“The employment of foreigners exempted from deportation will be considered 0.25 points in the Nitaqat...

Rohingyas should be allowed to live

Mar 6, 2013 | Refugee

Ramzy Baroud ONE fails to understand the unperturbed attitude with which regional and international leaders and organizations are treating the unrelenting onslaught against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Numbers speak of atrocities where every...