Jul 17, 2012 | News / Article
Two months of horrific escalations of violence have engulfed western Burma’s Rakhine State. While the conflict lurches between reproach and revenge, the media seems to be at a crossroads between better reportage and being forgotten by the drive of the news...
Jul 15, 2012 | News / Article
(Washington, DC – July 12, 2012) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) expresses its profound concern about the current violence against members of the Rohingya Muslim community, which have long experienced great hardship and oppression in their home...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
Aid workers have warned of an impending humanitarian catastrophe in western Burma as authorities attempt to isolate tens of thousands of the displaced ethnic Rohingya minority in camps described by one aid worker as “open air prisons”. Aid has struggled to...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
2012-07-13The Southeast Asian body vows to monitor the plight of the ethnic group unwanted in Burma and Bangladesh.The head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) raised the issue of the Rohingyas with the top diplomats of Burma and Bangladesh on...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
July 12, 2012By MOSHAHIDA SULTANA RITU Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh LAST spring, a flowering of democracy in Myanmar mesmerized the world. But now, three months after the democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi won a parliamentary seat, and a month after she...
