Valerie Amos, the co-coordinator for United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, told the UN News Centre that conditions for thousands of displaced Rohingya IDPs camps in western Burma are “dire” and called on the government...
By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Rakhine state, Burma Six months of sectarian violence has driven more than 100,000 people from their homes in western Burma. Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim communities that have lived separately for generations are now forcibly...
Source: Refugees InternationalCountry: Myanmar Despite an abundance of natural resources, Rakhine State is the second-poorest state in Burma. The simmering tension that exists between the Rakhine and stateless Rohingya communities has been stoked by poverty for...
Ethnic cleansing does not have to, by definition, emanate from a government. However after nearly 50 years of military rule, the apparatus of the state is entrenched in the fabric of Burmese society and as the pogrom continues in Arakan state, the back story provides...
