Mar 4, 2013 | Refugee
By Nora RowleyPhysician and Human Rights Activist — USA“We want peace,” were the Rohingya’s sentiments expressed to me again, as I recently revisited the Rakhine State in Myanmar/Burma, where a population of Muslims has been living for centuries. Once again, I was...
Mar 4, 2013 | Report
Report from European Commission Humanitarian Aid department Sittwe, January 2013: Standing amongst heaps of woven bamboo panels and corrugated iron sheets, Abdul oversees more than 20 fellow Rohingya workers building over a dozen barrack-type shelters, each to house...
Mar 3, 2013 | Refugee
Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – A wooden boat carrying 121 hungry, weak Rohingya has been found adrift off Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh. A doctor at a hospital in Lhokseumawe says the boat had engine trouble and was discovered by fishermen...
Mar 3, 2013 | Refugee
Emanuel StoakesThe international community has been shamefully unresponsive to this crisis The news last week that around a hundred refugees from Burma had slowly starved to death after 25 days at sea may have shocked those unfamiliar with the current state of affairs...
Mar 3, 2013 | Refugee
By Meghna Guhathakurta “We Rohingyas are like orchids,” an 18-year-old Rohingya man called Shamsul once told me. “We are not able to grow any roots in the ground so we are left with only one way to stay alive and that is to cling on to others.”- Emma Larkin, in the...
