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Rohingya refugees suffering mental distress
Feb 04, 2021 19:39The recent coup in Myanmar compounds the nationwide instability and stress that fuel the mental-health crisis festering among Rohingya survivors and places real solutions further out of reach.
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Would the cruel woman’s ouster end cruelties for Rohingya Muslims?
Feb 03, 2021 22:11Irrespective of whether or not they keep their word, the UN and the West, if they are really sincere in their lip service for the world’s most persecuted people, should seriously engage the military rulers to redress the plight of the Rohingya, instead of shedding tears for Aung San Suu Kyi, and her so-called civilian colleagues, who had rigged the recent elections to secure 322 seats required to form the government.
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In Myanmar’s Rakhine, families of the disappeared seek answers
Jan 23, 2021 10:16Myanmar’s armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, are notorious for committing rights abuses with impunity, most notably following a brutal 2017 crackdown on Rakhine State’s mostly Muslim Rohingya that sent 740,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.
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Far from home, Rohingya refugees face new peril on a remote island
Nov 06, 2020 08:42Three years ago, a military operation in Myanmar destroyed entire Rohingya Muslim villages. UN investigators say as many as 10,000 people were killed and more than 730,000 Rohingya fled the massacre for Bangladesh. The UN called it a "textbook ethnic cleansing."
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Ongoing oppression of Rohingya highlighted again
Oct 01, 2020 11:17A new report has highlighted the need for the international community to examine the ongoing oppression against the Rohingya. Myanmar is a nation whose history is marred by the struggle between those in power and those they oppress. In recent years this has been especially true of the ethnic Rohingya in the country’s western Rakhine State. They have faced decades of oppression, culminating most recently in a military campaign against them that is now being investigated as genocide by the UN.
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Rohingya refugees charge sexual assault on Bangladeshi island
Sep 27, 2020 10:45Rohingya refugees charge they are being held against their will in jail-like conditions and subjected to rape and sexual assault on a Bangladeshi island in the Bay of Bengal.
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Lockdown is dangerous for Rohingya women, girls
May 31, 2020 10:05At least 15,000 Rohingya refugees are under quarantine in Bangladesh's vast camps, as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections there rose to nearly 30. Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped settlements, housing almost a million Rohingya who fled violence in Myanmar, and officials had restricted movement in the area in April.
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COVID-19 cases spark concern in Rohingya refugee camps
May 27, 2020 10:36Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar's Rakhine and neighboring Chin State are considered at particularly high risk of COVID-19 for a number of reasons, including active conflict and travel restrictions. More than 8,000 civilians, mostly ethnic Chin Christians, fled fighting in recent months between the military and the Arakan Army group in the Paletwa and Matupi townships which border Rakhine.
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Save Rohingya Muslims from COVID-19
Apr 20, 2020 15:48For almost three years, Rohingya refugees who have been sheltering in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have tried to go home and resume normal life. They want their children to go to school and for families separated by the conflict to be reunited. So far, international attempts to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and improve conditions in Rakhine State have failed.
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Save Rohingya Muslims from COVID-19
Apr 09, 2020 09:50For almost three years, Rohingya refugees who have been sheltering in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have tried to go home and resume normal life. They want their children to go to school and for families separated by the conflict to be reunited. So far, international attempts to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and improve conditions in Rakhine State have failed.