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Winter Bringing Rain Continues at Coxbazar & There is Signal Number Three Since the Weather is Quite Bad.
Heavy Rain and Bad Weather Worry Rohingya Refugees as There is a Threat of Cold and Corona. Staff Reporter People are suffering and daily life has stopped due to rain and continuous drizzling. Abdur Sukkur at Camp 16 told to our correspondence that “due to rain, walkways are slippery and people are feeling cold. It […]
US Holocaust Museum Calls Atrocities Against Myanmar’s Rohingya ‘Genocide’
A United States museum dedicated to the Holocaust said Monday that “compelling evidence” indicates that Myanmar’s armed forces committed ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and genocide against Rohingya Muslims during crackdowns in 2017 and 2016. “The Burmese military’s campaign against the Rohingya, especially the attacks of August 2017, have been deliberate, systematic, and widespread,” […]
Fatima, the Rohingya, tells her story
The rhythmic pitter-patter of the rain on the white tarpaulin roof is the only sound to be heard in the camp: no television, no music, no children laughing. The silence is in stark contrast to the noisy streets of Cox’s Bazar, which we passed through on our way here. The quiet is only interrupted […]
‘I don’t think they will come back’: Inside a killing zone, 1 year later
As the widely acknowledged site of a massacre, the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine seemed a peculiar place for Myanmar government officials to kick off a foreign press tour. Walking into the rain-soaked village more than a year later, there were no specific signs of the outburst of sudden, gruesome violence that killed […]
Theresa May condemns ‘what looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslim refugees in Myanmar
Theresa May has strongly condemned the crisis in Myanmar which ‘looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured over the border into Bangladesh, with harrowing stories of starvation, rape, and loss of their homes. The Rohingya people who live in western Rakhine state are a minority in the mainly Buddhist […]
Young refugees pushed into prostitution in Germany
Security workers at Berlin's refugee accommodation centers are pushing young refugees into prostitution, public broadcaster ZDF reported on Tuesday. Social workers, refugees and security company insiders told the German-language "Frontal 21" program that security employees were even pimping out minors as part of a prostitution ring. The guards reportedly meet with young refugees and convince […]
Foster couple welcomed two refugees home
The foster parents for the 18-year-old now considered the prime suspect in the Parsons Green bucket bombing knew little about him before taking him in, friends said today. Penny and Ronald Jones reportedly learned more from police about the teenager in the past three days than they learned from Surrey County Council, who placed him in Sunbury-on-Thames. Neighbours […]
Where can Syrian refugees go?
Millions of displaced Syrians are looking for a place to be resettled, while countries around the world continue to reject them. On Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 and amid the world’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II, Donald Trump imposed a four-month suspension of all refugee admissions into the US and indefinitely banned entry to all Syrian refugees. The […]
Syrian refugee family who found safety in Germany name their baby Angela Merkel
A Syrian refugee family in Germany have named their newly born daughter Angela Merkel Muhammed, in gratitude to the Chancellor. Asia Faray and Khalid Muhammed arrived in Germany with their four children at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 thanks to Ms. Merkel's open-door asylum policy. Angela is the couple's fifth child. She was born on […]
‘I lost everything – then Britain gave me a life’: Refugees who risked it all to flee war-torn homelands tell their stories
They came across in packed boats, some were chased out of their homes by machine-gun-wielding men others and another sent here by his mom when he was just six. Now refugees have described escaping their war-torn countries to find safety and freedom on British soil. The British Red Cross traveled up and down the country during Refugee […]Recent Posts
A panel of experts convened on Friday to discuss the future of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar following a military coup there last month. The online discussion was hosted by the Centre for British-Turkish Understanding in collaboration with the Justice For Rohingya Minority group and the Burma Human Rights Network and hosted by prominent figures, including […]
