SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Indian revenue authorities in the occupied Kashmir have ordered that power and water supply for 409 Muslim Rohingya refugee families be cut off. This is part of an ongoing crackdown aimed at eventually deporting them to their troubled homeland in Myanmar. A revenue document outlines the private properti...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps have expressed support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s decision to seek an arrest warrant for Burma’s military leader over crimes committed against their community. The chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, had on Wednesday filed for an arres...
ATHENS (AA) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has announced his office seeks arrest warrant for the Burmese junta chief over the deportation and persecution of Rohingya Muslims. “After an extensive, independent and impartial investigation, my Office has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Senior ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The efforts to repatriate displaced Rohingya Muslim refugees have been delayed due to the cease-fire breakdown between the junta regime and rebels in Burma, a top Burmese diplomat in Dhaka has said. “Efforts toward the repatriation of displaced persons had been delayed due to the cease-fire breakdown by the Araka...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Bangladesh has called for an “all stakeholders’ conference” to address the Rohingya crisis, as the country “reached its limits” in hosting the world’s most persecuted community. “Bangladesh has reached her limits,” Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the transitional government...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – For the past three years, Mohammad Lalu had been diligently saving up, bit by bit, for one goal: to ensure that he and his family of eight had $2,000 to cross the Naf River and reach a Rohingya refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh. Lalu was not among the approximately 750,000 […]
COX ‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees stranded in camps in southern Bangladesh observed the seventh “Rohingya Genocide Day” on Sunday. The commemoration took place as new refugees, fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar, continued to arrive at the border. Seven years ago, the majority of the Rohingya community was...
As many as 26 Rohingya refugees drowned when their boat capsized while fleeing violence in Burma. This latest disaster underscores the deepening crisis for the Rohingya. The Muslim minority is trapped in the conflict between Burma’s military and the Arakan Army insurgents. Witnesses reported that the boat, overcrowded with 30 passengers, sank ...
GENEVA (AA) – Since atrocities began against the Rohingya Muslims of Burma seven years ago, no one has been held accountable for crimes they endured, and the impunity cycle must be broken, the head of the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Burma) has said. Nicholas Koumjian, head of IIMM, said that this week mark...
ANKARA (AA) – A drone attack that killed over 200 fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Bangladesh border on Monday has forced hundreds to return to their hometowns, while thousands are still taking shelter in paddy fields awaiting to cross into neighboring Bangladesh, according to a rights group. Risking their lives, a few hundred have move...
