Introduction Beginning in late 1991, wide-scale atrocities committed by the Burmese military, including rape, forced labor, and religious persecution, triggered an exodus of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from the northwestern Burmese state of Arakan into Bangladesh.[1]...
April 14, Burma IssuesIn October of 2004, the government of Malaysia, despite its generallyambivalent posture towards refugees, declared that it would recognize theRohingyas, a group of Muslim people who live in Arakan State in Burma, asrefugees and would furthermore...
Dated: 26th November 2004.By Fayas AhmedFourteen Burmese Rohingya refugees died, over 100 wounded and more than a hundred refugees were arrested in a clash with Bangladeshi policemen on 18th and 19th November 2004, in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar,...