Rohingya Global Day of Action on 8 November 2012

Rohingya Global Day of Action on 8 November 2012

Speech by Nurul Islam, President of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation, at the protest rally held at 12-2pm, in front of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on the Rohingya Global Day of Action on 8 November 2012 Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,...

Burma’s Rohingya: forced into exile

  They’re one of the most persecuted minorities on earth. Descendants of Muslim merchants, the Rohingya settled in Burma centuries ago. But in 1982, a law took away their nationality as well as their rights to property, marriage and education. Now a dispute...

Burma: HRW satellite images ‘show Rakhine destruction’

A human rights group has released satellite images of what appears to be the destruction of a coastal Burmese district riven by ethnic unrest. Human Rights Watch says the images show that more than 800 buildings and houseboats were burned to the ground in Kyaukpyu, in...