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Third meeting of Myanmar-Bangladesh working group may set repatriation date
Myanmar and Bangladesh officials will meet in Dhaka on Monday for the third time to try to expedite the repatriation of refugees who fled Rakhine State to Bangladesh. Ambassador U Hau Do Suan, Myanmar’s permanent representative to the UN, said the two-day meeting in Dhaka is the result of an informal meeting between Myanmar, […]
No Exit: Refugees Trapped in a Squalid Greek Camp
It may seem paradoxical that while the number of migrants arriving in Europe has fallen by 90 percent from its 2015 peak, the refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has grown into an unspeakable hell, where asylum seekers are driven to madness and suicide. Sadly, the horror of Camp Moria described by Patrick Kingsley of […]
‘No one wants the terrorists back’: signs of Rohingya erased in Rakhine state
All along the rutted road running from Inn Din village to Maungdaw town in northern Rakhine state, the blackened, headless trunks of palm trees punctuate the lush landscape. A year after Myanmar’s military launched a campaign of murder, rape, and arson to drive out the the rohingya the charred trees are the only visible reminders […]
Myanmar’s ‘Genocidal Acts’ Demand UN Action
At a dramatic meeting of the United Nations Security Council on October 24, the anniversary of the founding of the UN in 1945, the chair of a special independent investigative commission on Myanmar government’s security forces against the country’s Rohingya Muslims. To donate and contribute to Rohingya refugees and Rohingya students, please go to www.allmercy.org […]
The Rohingya crisis: Looking back, looking ahead
On August 25, 2017, and in the days, weeks and months that followed, violence in Myanmar’s long-troubled Rakhine State triggered an exodus of Rohingya people to Cox’s Bazar District in neighbouring Bangladesh. SEE ALSO- Fatima, the Rohingya, tells her story Since then, some 700,000 women, men and children have fled their homeland, the majority […]
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 […]
Women struggle to survive Greece’s notorious refugee camp
Women stranded as refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos face daily violence, never-ending asylum procedures and horrible living conditions. DW’s Marianna Karakoulaki spoke with some of them about their experiences. Amal, a young woman in her 20s, and her family fled the ongoing conflict at home in Yemen as well as limited opportunities […]
Buddhist extremism: Meet the violent followers of a religion widely known for its pacifism
Wirathu, an infamous Buddhist nationalist monk, was sanctioned in March 2017 for religious hate speech that demonised the Rohingya Muslims. And last weekend, his rhetoric demonstrated that — at least in his mind — little had changed. To donate and contribute to Rohingya refugees and Rohingya students, please go to www.allmercy.org As military […]
Rohingya Tell Delhi Police to Kill or Bomb Their Camp Than Ask For Biometric Details
Rohingya living in the national capital are ready to die than be deported. Delhi Police, in a first, have circulated a national verification form and are collecting biometric details of every resident in the camp. The sudden identity drive by the police has caused fear of deportation within the refugee camp. While such forms […]
‘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 […]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 […]
