Udatta Bikash, Human Rights Practitioner, Dhaka Photo: www.msf.org. The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR has been playing a discriminatory role against the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.The agency has been supporting around 30,000 Rohingya refugees staying in...
Mr. Nurul Islam, President of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) and Mr. Harn Yawanghwe, the Director of the National Reconciliation Program of the Union of Burma (NRP) and Director of the Euro-Burma Office in Brussels, visited the OIC on May 12, 2008...
We urge and request all rohingyas to fill in the petition that would be send to the United Nations Security Council members (including the dictatorship's main backer China) and to media at the UN.Following is the...
Troops refuse to fire on crowdsReports from Rangoon suggest soldiers are mutinying. It is unclear the numbers involved. Reports cite heavy shooting in the former Burmese capital.The organisation Helfen ohne Grenzen (Help without Frontiers) is reporting that...
Akyab, Arakan State: The Burmese military junta and members of the United Solidarity Development Association (USDA) have warned all monasteries in Akyab not to allow young monks, called novices, to go out of the monasteries. The order came after authorities imposed...
September 26, Akyab: For the first time yesterday, the Muslim community joined a protest led by monks in Akyab after five major demonstrations broke out in the Arakan State's capital, Burma since August 28, said a resident."I saw over 1000 Muslims march the...
