Homeless and Helpless: The Rohingya Muslims of Rakhine State

Dec 8, 2012 | Report

By Andrew BuncombeThe Independent, December 5, 2012″What difference does a simple name make? For Mohammad Ali, a resident of this town’s last Muslim neighbourhood, a ghetto cut-off by barbed wire and military check-points, it matters to his very core....

Dire condition of Rohingya camps, need to improve: Valerie Amos

Dec 8, 2012 | Refugee

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos has described the conditions for thousands of displaced Rohingya IDPs camps in western Burma, are dire and called Burmese authority to improve the camp...

Expert warns of Rohingya genocide

Dec 8, 2012 | Report

The findings are the result of a four-month investigation into events in western Myanmar this June 2012. It is produced by British filmmaker Phil Rees and will be broadcast at the following times: Al Jazeera English (GMT) Sun 9th Dec 0600Mon 10th Dec 2000Tue...

UN, Burmese Officials Discuss Rohingya Citizenship

Dec 8, 2012 | News / Article

Daniel Schearf December 06, 2012BANGKOK — The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator,Valerie Amos, is meeting with Burma’s President Thein Sein after visiting displaced peoples camps in Rakhine and Kachin...