Jul 17, 2012 | News / Article
July 16Francis WadeAID groups have warned of an impending humanitarian catastrophe in western Myanmar 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...
Jul 17, 2012 | News / Article
July 17, As president of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC), I feel it is important to express my deep regret for the failure of the world to react appropriately to the killing and persecution of Muslim ethnic Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar. It...
Jul 17, 2012 | News / Article
Date: 15/07/2012 The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, in a statement issued in Jeddah today, strongly condemned the renewed repression and violation of human rights of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim nationals since...
Jul 17, 2012 | News / Article
Yangon – Aid workers are concerned about access to healthcare in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, more than a month after communal violence left over 50,000 people displaced. “Even before the recent unrest, there was limited access to healthcare for many in...
Jul 17, 2012 | News / Article
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are threatened by an increase in sectarian violence. Will the people of Myanmar soon have their own derivative for the Nazi term Judenrein? For those who do not know what Judenrein means, it literally translates to “free...
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...
