Aug 11, 2012 | News / Article
President Thein Sein said he welcomed a visit by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation in an effort to diffuse mounting outcry over the treatment of the Muslim Rohingya. (AP) Myanmar has invited an influential Islamic body to visit a state rocked by...
Aug 11, 2012 | News / Article
AUG 2, 2012By Gregory Poling and Prashanth Parameswaran Myanmar continues to pursue reforms at an impressive pace, but the plight of the country’s Rohingya population remains a disgrace for a state seeking to engage the international community. That disgrace is not...
Aug 11, 2012 | News / Article
Bradford West MP George Galloway has written to Foreign Secretary William Hague, alerting him to the plight of the ancient Rohingya people of Burma –the subject of a vicious pogrom – and asking him to do what he can to come to their aid. Galloway said, ‘I appreciate...
Aug 11, 2012 | News / Article
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Emine Erdoğan, the Turkish prime minister’s wife, on Friday visited Rohingya Muslims staying in the Banduba refugee camp in the Myanmar coastal state of Rakhine. Apart from the United Nations, this is the first...
