By Jonathan Head BBC News, Rakhine It has been a year since sectarian fighting broke out in Burma’s westernmost state, forcing 140,000 people from their homes and casting a dark shadow over the promising start made by the new reformist government. Ugly...
HAT YAI, 28 June 2013 (IRIN) – Human rights groups are calling for improved living conditions for close to 2,000 Rohingya boat people now in detention in Thailand. “Thailand locks away Rohingya in heavily overcrowded detention centres when they should be...
Jeddah: ArabnewsSaturday 22 June 2013Last Update 23 June 2013 2:32 am Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal will inspect today the activities of the special committee that is in charge of correcting the status of the Kingdom’s Burmese community. “Prince Khaled is keen...
SITTWE, 13 June 2013 (IRIN) – One year after Myanmar’s worst sectarian violence in decades, tension between the Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in the country’s western Rakhine State remains high. An estimated 140,000...
SITTWE, 31 May 2013 (IRIN) – Aid workers are calling for better health access for an estimated 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, most of them Rohingya Muslims. Although a number of NGOs and government mobile clinics...
RAGHAV OHRI : ChandigarhThey ‘strayed’ into Indian territory and were arrested by Punjab Police in 2008. For not possessing valid documents, a trial court awarded them six months in jail in March 2009. They served their sentence. But four years on, a...
