Tag: Rohingya
A father and son’s quest for light in a Rohingya refugee camp – Macleans.ca
Ten-year-old Ajijur and his dad Saddiq scrimped and saved for their prized possession—a $50 solar kit to power a bulb in their new home Source: A father and son’s quest […]
Special envoy Bob Rae recommends Canada grant Rohingya refugee status
Bob Rae says Canada needs to consider granting refugee and resettlement status to Myanmar’s persecuted ethnic Rohingya, 700,000 of whom have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape a brutal campaign […]
No end in sight for Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh six months after attacks
Burma and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to get Rohingya back home, but new satellite images have shown empty villages and hamlets levelled, erasing evidence of their former lives. Source: […]
Bob Rae presses Myanmar for safe return of Rohingya Muslims
Special envoy also calls for release of two jailed journalists who have covered refugee crisis Source: Bob Rae presses Myanmar for safe return of Rohingya Muslims
Canadians have donated $12.5M to Myanmar refugee crisis, government intends to match it
Canada’s aid will go towards addressing the needs of women and girls, including survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Source: Canadians have donated $12.5M to Myanmar refugee crisis, government intends […]
At least 6,700 Rohingya killed in Burma between August and September, aid group says
Doctors Without Borders found the dead included at least 730 children younger than 5. “The peak in deaths coincides with the launch of the latest ‘clearance operations’ by (Burma) security […]
Horrifying stories from Rohingya refugee camp
How do we respond to another genocide in the 21st century? First, we witness. Then, we act in solidarity. Solidarity requires our government to recognize this as genocide and push […]
Hundreds decry violence against Rohingya Muslims at Ottawa protest
Hundreds of people showed their solidarity with Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar at a noisy protest outside the country’s Ottawa embassy Sunday afternoon. Source: Hundreds decry violence against Rohingya Muslims at […]
Rohingya Muslims facing world’s most enduring sentiment: bigotry
Long before the latest violence sent 270,000 Rohingyas pouring across the border to Bangladesh, fleeing for their lives, they lived a bleak existence. Source: Rohingya Muslims facing world’s most enduring […]
How Canada can act to ensure justice for Rohingya
For decades, the million-strong Muslim minority living among 50 million Buddhists have faced brutalities at the hands of extremist Buddhists and security forces, but now many including the UN are […]
Canada faults Myanmar government for failing to end violence against Rohingya Muslims
Canada is blaming Aung San Suu Kyi’s government and Myanmar’s military for failing to stop violence that has forced more than 120,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh in less […]
Malala Yousafzai calls on Myanmar to condemn violence against Rohingya Muslims: ‘The world is waiting’
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, said her “heart breaks” at the suffering of Rohingya Muslims and urged Myanmar’s leader, a fellow Nobel laureate, to […]
Burma: 400 killed amid ‘massacre’ of Rohingya Muslims, army says
Almost 400 people have died in clashes between security forces and Rohingya Muslims in Burma, the country’s military commander has said. Source: Burma: 400 killed amid ‘massacre’ of Rohingya Muslims, […]
Thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar for Bangladesh
Thousands of Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since Myanmar announced a military build-up in violence-hit Rakhine state earlier this month, according to community leaders. Rohingya leaders in Bangladesh told AFP […]
India hedges pledge to expel Rohingya Muslims amid outcry
A day after the U.N. chief voiced concern about Indian plans to potentially deport tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees, an Indian government official said Wednesday that authorities are […]
Advocates urge Trudeau to push for minority Muslim rights in Myanmar
Human Rights Watch and Burmese refugees in Canada want Justin Trudeau to push Aung San Suu Kyi to allow an independent investigation into alleged abuses against minority Muslims in Myanmar. […]
More than 1,000 feared killed in Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya: UN
More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death […]
Malaysia says OIC will push Myanmar to halt Rohingya crisis
Source: Malaysia says OIC will push Myanmar to halt Rohingya crisis | Metro News
65,000 Rohingya flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh following crackdown: UN
At least 65,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar – a third of them over the past week – since the army launched a crackdown in the north of […]
US official: In Myanmar crackdown, abuses appear ‘normal’
Myanmar’s majority Buddhists loathe the Rohingya. Many of the more than 1 million-strong community have lived there for generations, but they lack citizenship. The Rohingya bore the brunt of intercommunal […]
Rohingya abuse may be crimes against humanity: Amnesty
Military action against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority may amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said, as the government called a meeting of regional leaders to discuss the issue. Source: […]
UN says it’s getting daily reports of rapes and killings in Myanmar
At least 86 people have been killed, according to state media, and the United Nations has estimated 27,000 members of the largely stateless Muslim Rohingya minority have fled across the […]
Malaysian PM leads protest against ‘genocide’ of Rohingya
Najib said the rally at a stadium in suburban Kuala Lumpur will send a strong message to Aung San Suu Kyi’s government that “enough is enough.” “U.N. please do something. […]
Thousands in Asia protest persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Thousands of Bangladeshis marched in the capital’s streets Friday to protest the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, one of several similar rallies in the region.Chanting “Stop killing Rohingya Muslims,” […]
Myanmar’s War on the Rohingya
After violence unleashed in 2012 by Buddhist extremists drove tens of thousands of Rohingya out of their homes, many risked their lives to escape in smugglers’ boats; more than 100,000 […]