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Keep calm, senior minister says on Rohingya issue
KUALA LUMPUR: Investigations will be carried out into news, videos and audios circulating on social media about the Rohingya community. Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said for now, Malaysians should keep calm and not raise issues that could result in unwanted incidents. He said police were investigating the matter as some […]
Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine
The Myanmar Government shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country’s restive western borderlands on Monday (April 20), after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreaks. Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week […]
Govt, humanitarian community to ensure health services in Rohingya camps: IOM
The government and the humanitarian community, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), are now delivering a “wide array of supports” to ensure that health services for both Rohingyas and the host community are ready. The initiatives are taken recognising the risks that the COVID-19 outbreak could pose to one of the largest refugee camps in […]
Coronavirus Concern Grows For Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Concern is growing about a possible outbreak of the new coronavirus in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. Officials warn that containing the disease among the more than 1 million Rohingya refugees will be extremely difficult. About 40,000 people per square kilometer live in temporary shelters made mostly of sticks and plastic. The density […]
Rohingya Children Learn To Fight Back Against COVID-19, One Pair of Hands at a time.
Around the world, communities have been taking precautions to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and keep their families safe, including by practicing physical distancing. But for the more than 850,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in cramped conditions in what is effectively the world’s largest refugee camp, keeping some distance from other […]Donate Now
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It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]
