Thousands of Rohingyas fled the Rakhine state of Myanmar, having already endured violence in all manner and form – witnessing family members and loved ones killed, tortured, raped and seen houses burnt to the ground. Further south of the Indochina Peninsula, the 32-year iron fisted rule of Cambodian premier, Hun Sen continues to take its toll on the civil liberties of regular Cambodians.
Five Rohingya shot dead in Myanmar have been buried in Bangladesh at a mass funeral attended by hundreds of people after their relatives carried their bodies across the border, police said Thursday.The Rohingya villagers who carried the victims' bodies said they had been killed by the Myanmar military on Wednesday, Bangladesh border guard, commander Manzurul Hasan Khan, told AFP.
Indonesian Muslims protested outside the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday demanding an end to violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.Thousands of demonstrators, many in white Islamic robes and skullcaps, walked through the capital’s streets to converge outside the embassy in downtown Jakarta.Persecution of the Rohingya, reviled as illegal immigrants and mostly denied citizenship in Myanmar, has been a lightning rod for anger in Indonesia and across the Muslim world.Pro
Nearly 168,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar in the last five years as a result of violence and desperation, according to a new report on forced displacement in South-East Asia published by the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency). Many Rohingyas seek help by fleeing into neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Malaysia.
Two Rohingya children – one of whom lost a leg – were injured by an apparent landmine blast as they tried to flee unrest in Myanmar on Tuesday, a Bangladesh border official said.The incident came after a Rohingya woman had a leg blown off in the same area on Monday, raising fears that the border area had been deliberately mined."They stepped onto some sort of explosives this morning and one of them lost his leg," border guard commander Manzurul Hasan Khan told AFP (Agence France-Pre
Malaysian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) call on Myanmar government to immediately stop military operations on Rakhine civilians that have targeted the Rohingya people.A memorandum by the NGOs, which will be delivered through the Ambassador of Myanmar to Malaysia, Zaw Myint, to the State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and President of Myanmar Htin Kyaw.“We from the Malaysian NGOs are seriously concern pertaining to the current Myanmar military operation in the Rakhine state.
Religious persecution against the Muslim minority Rohingya in Myanmar has been an ongoing crisis that has thrown the country into international limelight for all the wrong reasons.
Heavily pregnant and confined to a squalid Bangladeshi refugee camp, Ayesha Begum does not regret that her husband will miss the imminent birth of their sixth child as he fights alongside Rohingya militants in Myanmar.Begum, 25, joined the exodus of Rohingya fleeing troubled Rakhine State in recent days as fresh violence erupted between Myanmar's security forces and militants fighting for the stateless Muslim minority.But like many, her husband stayed behind in Myanmar to join the growin
Bangladesh has proposed joint military operations with Myanmar against Rohingya militants fighting in Rakhine state, as the UN raised fears over reports of civilians killed during fresh violence in recent days.An upsurge in fighting in Rakhine, an impoverished state neighbouring Bangladesh, has been raging since Friday when Rohingya militants staged coordinated ambushes against Myanmar's security forces.More than 100 people, including around 80 militants, have been confirmed killed in th
