With now over a million Rohingya refugees seeking safety in Bangladesh, China has begun to put pressure on the two countries to come to a peaceful agreement and solution to the current problem. With China finally getting involved, the two countries have agreed to arrange different steps so that the “people” can return to their homeland. Whether Myanmar’s government will… Read more »
Across Myanmar, Denial of Ethnic Cleansing and Loathing of Rohingya 查看简体中文版 查看繁體中文版 By HANNAH BEECHOCT. 24, 2017 SITTWE, Myanmar — The Buddhist abbot tucked his legs under his robes and began to explain. Rohingya Muslims do not belong in Myanmar, and they never have, he said. Their fertility allowed them to overwhelm the local Buddhist population. But now, somehow, many Rohingya… Read more »
source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya/myanmar-bangladesh-agree-to-cooperate-on-rohingya-refugee-repatriation-idUSKBN1CT29C Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to cooperate on Rohingya refugee repatriation Shoon Naing NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar and Bangladesh on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on the repatriation of Rohingya refugees and took steps to boost border security as relations between the neighbors have been strained by the continuing flow of refugees into Bangladesh. Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar… Read more »
source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/myanmar-signs-deal-bangladesh-rohingya-repatriation-171025070235910.html Myanmar signs deal with Bangladesh on Rohingya repatriation by Florence Looi 25 Oct 2017 Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to cooperate on the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, who have fled what the UN has described as “textbook ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State. More than 600,000 have crossed into Bangladesh in the last two months, but given the… Read more »
Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/171024063139260.html US mulls sanctions on Myanmar over Rohingya crisis 24 Oct 2017 The United States is considering sanctions against Myanmar authorities for its “violent, traumatic abuses” of the majority Muslim Rohingya in restive Rakhine state. Washington may use a human rights law to target leaders or groups involved in the violence in the western state, the US Department of State said in a statement on… Read more »
The Rohingya Muslims have continued to flee from their villages in the Rhakine state with now over half a million escaping to Bangladesh across dangerous waters. Myanmar’s military has continued to systematically burn down villages and crops, leaving the Rohingya nothing to come back to. The ones remaining are faced with a hard decision, flee the violence and gain possible safety in Bangladesh or… Read more »
Rohingya crisis: Finding out the truth about Arsa militants By Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent 11 October 2017 If there was one thing almost everyone who has monitored Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine State agreed on, it was that sooner or later their plight would breed militant resistance to the authority of the state. The attacks that started in the early… Read more »
By: Yaara Bou Melhem 5 hours ago The UN is accusing Myanmar’s security forces of torture, killings and the rape of children, as part of what it says were “well-organised, coordinated and systematic attacks” against the majority-Muslim Rohingya. It says those “clearance operations” began before an attack by Rohingya fighters on August 25th, which was the reason given for the military crackdown. More… Read more »
13 hours ago MORE ON MYANMAR Myanmar security forces have carried out “well organised, coordinated and systematic” attacks aimed at preventing members of the Rohingya ethnic group from returning, the UN Human Rights office said in a report on Wednesday. The report, based on interviews with Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh in the past month, said that “clearance operations” started before armed… Read more »
Ethnic tensions between the Rohingya Muslims and Myanmar Buddhists have been rising for years, and it’s finally reached a tipping point last month. Myanmar’s government justification for obvious ethnic cleansing is that the Rohingya living in the Rhakine state are creating terrorist organizations and that the rest are illegal immigrants. The Rohingya Muslims are the biggest stateless ethnic group in… Read more »