SITTWE, Burma — Abu Kassim clutched his stomach and heaved forward, replaying the moment his uncle was shot dead last summer, one of scores of people who were killed as sectarian violence engulfed western Burma. Abu Kassim, 26, and his ethnic Rohingya family have...
The United States should play a key role in negotiating with Myanmar to take back thousands of Rohingya migrants who are being sheltered in several provinces of Thailand, a seminar was told yesterday. Col Teeranan Nandhakwang, deputy director of the Strategic and...
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s navy on Saturday rescued 38 Myanmar nationals who were drifting off the island’s east coast, the second batch of Rohingya boat people to be saved in as many weeks, officials said. Sri Lankan naval craft responding to a distress...
The UN says rights abuses are still going on in Burma despite government reforms. Human rights abuses are still going on in Burma, according to the United Nations, despite reforms made by the military-backed government. The UN has singled out the arbitrary arrest and...
UNICEF began this week delivering footballs and other play and recreation supplies to eight Ministry of Social Development and Human Security shelters caring for Rohingya children in southern Thailand. Some 270 Rohingya children, many who were separated from their...
Activists say that up to 19,000 people – mostly Rohingya Muslims – have set sail from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state to Thailand to escape violence and deteriorating living conditions. There are around 800,000 Rohingyas living in Myanmar, also known...
