The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos has described the conditions for thousands of displaced Rohingya IDPs camps in western Burma, are dire and called Burmese authority to improve the camp...
Source: The IrrawaddyDate: 07 Nov 2009 By ALEX ELLGEE TEKNAF, BANGLADESH — "I've lost everything in my life and now I can only pray that I don't get sent back to Burma," Haziqah, a 27-year-old female Rohingya refugee, told The Irrawaddy from...
In January, Australians saw shocking photos of young, emaciated men washing up on the shores of Sumatra. Australian television showed these Rohingyas, members of a Muslim ethnic minority systematically mistreated by Burma’s military regime, describing how Thai...
By Shafiq Alam (AFP) – 6 hours ago KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh — As one of Myanmar’s ethnic Muslim Rohingya, 45-year-old Manjurul Islam endured a lifetime of oppression before he finally fled the country for a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh. Described by UN...
Survivors say 22 migrants from Burma's Rohingya Muslim minority died at sea * Ian MacKinnon, south-east Asia correspondent * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 February 2009 12.19 GMTFishermen have rescued another 198 starving Burmese...
