Just Imagine This!

Aug 30, 2007 | Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Dr. Habib Siddiqui [Author’s note: This paper is based on author’s speech at the PENN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM on “The Rohingyas of Burma and Bangladesh” on Friday, March 31, 2006 in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. The material in...

Religious & Racial Riots due to Rumours

Aug 30, 2007 | Dr. Habib Siddiqui

I am somewhat disappointed reading some accusatory notes in which they seemed to accept the alleged rape story of Buddhist girls/women by Muslims for a fact. As such, mere assertions are non-starters for any serious dialogue of mending of the fences between various...

Divide & Rule

Aug 30, 2007 | Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Dr. Habib SiddiquiLet me say that the SPDC military regime did not come in the vacuum of history. It has learned the art of “divide and rule,” a policy that was patented in the history rather well. The SPDC has succeeded in gaining and holding power over...

The Plight of Rohingyas

Aug 30, 2007 | CRDB

The Rohingya community of Arakan , Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most down-trodden ethnic minorities of the world. They are victim of political oppression, economic exploitation, cultural slavery and communal violence in their ancestral land Arakan where they have...

Arakan: The Land

Aug 30, 2007 | CRDB

The blood-drenched Arakan is being tormented decades after decades in a terrible death throe which has germinated from the grim showbiz of the Reign of Terror of the military rulers. The people of Arakan who had been once living in peace and perfect amity, have to...