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Oct 04, 2018 Hamzeh Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar Comments Off on India Deports 7 Rohingya to Myanmar Despite UN Protest
India Deports 7 Rohingya to Myanmar Despite UN Protest India on Thursday deported seven Rohingya men to Myanmar, despite U.N. warnings that they faced persecution in a country where the army is accused of genocide against the Muslim minority. The men, who had been in detention for immigration offenses since 2012, were handed over to […]Dec 04, 2017 Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar Comments Off on How refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar are sustained by their food memories in Delhi
By Avantika Bhuyan It’s a grey Saturday morning, with a threat of rain in the air, but people are out in full force at the Nature Bazaar in Adchini, Delhi. Aroma of food being cooked wafts from the food court, and a small queue is forming outside a particular stall. There, ladies in head scarves […]Nov 17, 2017 Articles & Interviews, Myanmar, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues, Religious Rights Comments Off on 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 […]Sep 01, 2017 Countries, Europe, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar Comments Off on UN says 27,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar as bodies wash up
More than 27,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar in recent days, the United Nations said, as corpses of people drowned in desperate attempts to cross the border river washed up on Bangladeshi soil Friday. A further 20,000 Rohingya have massed along the Bangladeshi frontier, the UN added in a statement late Thursday, but […]Jul 29, 2023
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 […]