By Nora RowleyPhysician and Human Rights Activist — USA“We want peace,” were the Rohingya’s sentiments expressed to me again, as I recently revisited the Rakhine State in Myanmar/Burma, where a population of Muslims has been living for centuries. Once again, I was...
Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – A wooden boat carrying 121 hungry, weak Rohingya has been found adrift off Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh. A doctor at a hospital in Lhokseumawe says the boat had engine trouble and was discovered by fishermen...
Emanuel StoakesThe international community has been shamefully unresponsive to this crisis The news last week that around a hundred refugees from Burma had slowly starved to death after 25 days at sea may have shocked those unfamiliar with the current state of affairs...
By Meghna Guhathakurta “We Rohingyas are like orchids,” an 18-year-old Rohingya man called Shamsul once told me. “We are not able to grow any roots in the ground so we are left with only one way to stay alive and that is to cling on to others.”- Emma Larkin, in the...
Kabita ChakrabortyThe world has watched for decades, hoping for political reform that would bring freedoms to Burma. While the past two years have brought remarkable political and cultural changes, the hope of freedoms quickly gave way to ethnic conflict and communal...
Over one hundred Rohingya Muslims fleeing the onging violence in Myanmar have been found adrift off Indonesia’s coast. The wooden boat was discovered by fishermen about 25 kilometers (16 miles) north off the coast Aceh Province on Wednesday. A doctor at a hospital in...
