Rohingya

Myanmar: Why the World Turns a Blind Eye to Another Muslim Genocide

Sep 13, 2017 05:14

If the apartheid state of Israel has taught the world anything, it’s if you wish to garner Western sympathy for your efforts to colonize, occupy, or ethnically cleanse a predominately Muslim population, your best bet is to stigmatize those you wish to conquer or suppress as “radical Islamic terrorists.”
In Bangladesh border region, Rohingya Muslims find brotherly help

Sep 13, 2017 01:59

Ordinary Bangladeshi citizens have turned out to help the Rohingya Muslim refugees as the country works to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of the persecuted minority who are fleeing an escalation of violence back home in Myanmar.
Myanmar using landmines to harm fleeing Rohingya: Amnesty, Bangladesh

Sep 11, 2017 02:33

Amnesty International and Bangladeshi officials have slammed Myanmar’s military for using landmines against the Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence at home, causing many of the refugees to sustain serious injures or lose their body organs.
OIC leaders urge swift end to violence against Rohingya Muslims

Sep 10, 2017 14:33

Senior leaders of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have stressed the importance of taking swift action to put an immediate end to the ongoing brutal violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Reactions continue to Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya

Sep 10, 2017 12:16

World countries continue to harshly react to a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s government on minority Rohingya Muslims in a western state in the country.
Najib Razak says Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims face systematic atrocities

Sep 09, 2017 12:56

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face systematic atrocities, including torture, rape and murder, which have recently forced several hundred thousands of members of the persecuted minority to seek refuge across the border in neighboring Bangladesh.
President raps global inaction on violence against Rohingya Muslims

Sep 09, 2017 10:06

President Hassan Rouhani has denounced the failure of international organizations and bodies to take action toward putting an end to the violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying the Muslim world cannot remain silent on the plight of the minority group.
Ayatollah Movahedi Kermani strongly condemns massacre of Muslims in Myanmar

Sep 08, 2017 12:00

Tehran's provisional Friday Prayer Leader strongly condemned massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and called for Muslims' unity against the brutal killing of people in the Southeast Asian country.
FM urges swift UN action on Rohingya crisis

Sep 08, 2017 10:07

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned about the continuation of the ongoing crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, urging the international community and the United Nations in particular to take swift action to end the crisis.
Iranian worshipers rally in protest at crackdown on Rohingya

Sep 08, 2017 10:06

Iranian worshipers have staged rallies in Tehran and many other cities to express their outrage at the ongoing brutal violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.