Criticizing the Burmese government and Buddhist extremists in Burma for the pathetic conditions of camps for Internally Displaced Persons belonging to the Rohingya and Kachin ethnic communities, the UN Special Rapporteur to Burma Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana, addressing a...
By Emily RauhalaThirty-two asylum seekers rescued by the Sri Lankan navy say they went without food for 21 days and were forced to throw dozens of dead overboard after their wooden vessel failed at sea. The survivors, who identified themselves as Muslims from near the...
Shudeepto AriquzzamanThe United Nations has raised concerns on Saturday that the unrest in Arakan could derail the entire reform process in Myanmar. “Rakhine (Arakan) State is going through a profound crisis that threatens to spread to other parts of the country and...
By Jason Motlagh / SittweA large chunk of Abdul Rahman’s home is gone, and so is his oldest son, Shakur. The ethnic Rohingya farmer tore down nearly half his home for scrap needed to secure his son’s passage on a boat bound for Malaysia. In the wake of bloody...
BALIK PULAU: Some 140 Rohingya refugees starved for three days, before 35 of them, including children, were arrested in the jungle of the Penang National Park today. Aged between a year old to 70s, they were arrested about 3pm after they were found loitering around...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur to Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, says that the use of excessive force by Myanmar’s government forces against local communities and ethnic groups was worrying to the UN. Speaking at a press conference at Yangon International...
