Asylum seekers mark new year with hunger strike

Apr 14, 2013 | Refugee

Benjamin MillarA GROUP of hunger strikers protesting against their indefinite detention in Melbourne’s north have marked Tamil New Year by drinking a mouthful of water. The 27 hunger strikers at the MITA detention centre in Broadmeadows have entered their...

AND HOW REFORMED IS BURMA (MYANMAR) REALLY?

Mar 29, 2013 | Refugee

by Andrew Drummond Just what is going on in Arakan State? The abuse of the Rohingya in Burma continues. At the same time foreign companies and tourists are flooding in to the newly reformed country. Well just how reformed is it? Where are the forces in Burma defending...

Sectarian violence spreads in Myanmar

Mar 26, 2013 | Refugee

APMEIKHTILA, Myanmar // Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar has spread to at least two other towns in the country’s heartland, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people and displaced...

Tensions persist between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar

Mar 26, 2013 | Refugee

By Phyo Wai Lin, Jethro Mullen and Kocha Olarn, CNNYangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Residents of the city in central Myanmar where clashes between Buddhists and the Muslim minority killed dozens of people last week struggled to resume their daily lives on Monday with a...

Is Oil One Reason For Genocide of Rohingya in Burma?

Mar 19, 2013 | Refugee

Andy RowellHuman rights campaigners are warning that further ethnic cleansing in Burma, which is being exacerbated by land clearances due to economic developments surrounding the Shwe Oil/Gas pipeline, could be imminent. The Shwe pipeline, which ironically means...