Apr 11, 2013 | News / Article
NEW DELHI: ARAB NEWS Thursday 11 April 2013 Indian Muslim organizations and human rights bodies protested against the atrocities and cruel activities being meted out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.The protest organized by All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat...
Apr 2, 2013 | News / Article
A Burmese imam is being investigated for possible negligence after 13 children died in a fire at a Muslim school in Rangoon, police said.Authorities were also quizzing a Muslim teacher in the case, reports said. Police earlier blamed an electrical fault for the blaze....
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
Maung ZarniInstitutionalized racism against the Rohingya Muslims led Burma to genocide For those outside Burma, the broadcast images of the Theravada monks of the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 are still fresh. Backed by the devout Buddhist population, these monks were...
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
Posted by Alex Caring-LobelIn 2007, inspiring images of Burmese Buddhist monks leading their compatriots in demonstrations of civil resistance flooded the Western media. Just five years after the series of protests curiously referred to as the “Saffron Revolution”...
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
YANGON: Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in squalid, flood-prone camps in western Myanmar after fleeing communal unrest face “imminent danger” from looming monsoon rains, the UN warned on Friday.An estimated 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims have...
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
(AP)YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government on Saturday rejected remarks by a U.N. human rights official suggesting that the authorities bear some blame for recent mob attacks by Buddhists on minority Muslims that killed dozens of people. The U.N. official,...
