Myanmar

Tragedy strikes Rohingya Muslims again

Oct 31, 2017 09:11

At least seven Rohingya Muslims, including three babies, have drowned in two separate incidents near the Bangladeshi coastline while fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Myanmar charges reporters covering news for Turkish media

Oct 29, 2017 09:41

Myanmar has arrested two journalists working for Turkish state media for allegedly flying a drone over the parliament building in Naypyidaw for reporting.
Myanmar starts harvesting farmland abandoned by Rohingya Muslims

Oct 28, 2017 13:54

The government in Myanmar has embarked on harvesting rice from farmland abandoned by the Rohingya Muslim refugees, who have fled the military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine to neighboring Bangladesh.
Bangladesh mulls sterilization to curb Rohingya population

Oct 28, 2017 09:10

Bangladeshi health officials seek to launch sterilization programs to curb the number of Rohingya Muslim refugees, who have fled the military crackdown at home in Myanmar and taken refuge in overcrowded border camps in Bangladesh.
Dying in Myanmar – When genocide becomes normative rather than aberrational

Oct 25, 2017 05:41

As the killing of Muslims continues in Arakan or Rakhine, the self-styled defenders of human rights, who criticize independent countries on the slightest pretexts, have done nothing, except for some toothless statements.
Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to stop ‘outflow’ of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh

Oct 25, 2017 05:29

Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to immediately halt the “outflow” of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh and take steps to return them to Myanmar, where the Muslims have been fleeing from because of government-sanctioned violence in the first place.
UN opens key fundraising conference for Rohingya refugees

Oct 23, 2017 14:27

The United Nations has opened a major fundraising conference aimed at securing aid for nearly one million persecuted Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh.
Rohingya children refugees face hell on earth in Bangladesh camps: UNICEF

Oct 20, 2017 05:38

The United Nations children’s agency has warned of the dire conditions of Myanmarese refugee children in overcrowded and squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Tillerson blames ‘Myanmar military’ over Rohingya

Oct 19, 2017 10:21

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said Washington holds Myanmar’s military leadership responsible for a harsh crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims but stopped short of saying whether Washington would take any action to address the issue.
Call of Islam in support of the oppressed people of Myanmar

Oct 16, 2017 12:08

Ayah 75 of Surah Nisa reads: “Why should you not fight in the way of Allah and the abased men, women, and children, who say, ‘Our Lord, bring us out of this town whose people are wrongdoers, and appoint for us a guardian from You, and appoint for us a helper from You’?”