Reuters has uncovered what they say is confirmation that illegal camps are maintained in the southern Thai jungle as holding centres for Rohingya boatpeople who are sold on to human smuggling outfits.
Violence against the Rohingya minority in Arakan state has fuelled a wider campaign of anti-Muslim hostility in Burma which threatens to derail the country’s fragile democratic reform process, a UN envoy has warned.
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Suggesting that Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar strive to have large families to qualify for additional food rations, Bangladesh considers introducing birth control measures.
Australia is set to deport over 100 Rohingya asylum-seekers to detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in the coming weeks, in spite of accusations that the move would breach international human rights law.
Burma’s ethnic Rohingya continue to face heavy persecution in northern Arakan state, despite the dissolution of a controversial border guard force.
The UN’s human rights envoy to Burma has slammed the government for failing to protect him during a tour of riot-hit Meikhtila.
President Thein Sein announced that Burma has abolished the notorious Arakan security force that has been implicated in serious human rights violations against the stateless Rohingya minority
Human trafficking remains a significant problem in both Burma and Thailand, where the stateless Rohingya minority has become particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, a leading US report has warned
Thousands of displaced Rohingya are still stranded in low-lying areas next to the sea, less than a day before a tropical storm is expected to batter northwestern Burma
Doubts have been cast doubt on the Burmese government’s latest commitment to implement a “long-term” rehabilitation strategy in Arakan state, where Buddhists continue to oppose reintegration with the stateless Muslim Rohingya
A well known Rohingya human rights activist and interpreter in western Burma’s Arakan state was detained by authorities in Sittwe on Tuesday morning
Nearly 1,000 Muslim Rohingyas remain incarcerated in northern Arakan state, where campaigners say they are subject to “pervasive” abuses and at least 68 people are believed to have died in custody
An angry policeman gestures and shouts in Arakanese. The road is blocked with wooden fences and cords of barbed wire. A local man wrapped in a puffy coat and woollen[…]
Over 80 Rohingyas, fleeing violence and persecution in Arakan state, were detained by Burmese authorities on Wednesday in a coastal town near the Thai border, after traffickers abandoned them en route to Malaysia
A group of Arakanese monks have called for Rohingya “sympathisers” to be targeted and exposed as “national traitors” while tensions again flare between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma’s westernmost state
Forced labour continues to be an immense problem among the Rohingya population in Arakan state and has even increased in certain areas with the influx of Burmese troops after the summer’s riots
Burma’s president grants amnesty to three Muslim aid workers accused of inciting religious and ethnic hatred amid the June riots in Arakan state, days after they were sentenced to several years in jail
The Burmese army and police force have played a leading role in targeting Rohingya Muslims in northern Arakan state according to a group of UK-based NGOs speaking to the British parliament on Wednesday
The Burmese government has failed to take adequate steps to address human trafficking, especially in conflict-affected territories such as Kachin state, despite making progress in some areas
The three Muslim men accused of raping and killing Thida Htwe – the Arakanese girl whose death sparked sectarian violence across Burma’s Arakan state this month – were sentenced to death
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has called for “precise laws on citizenship” and “uncorrupted border vigilance” to address ongoing sectarian strife
The ILO is likely to ease its criticisms against Burma on forced labour, despite fresh reports of abuses carried out by the Burmese army
Racial profiling of Muslim babies by Burmese government entails ban on children born out of wedlock obtaining travel documents
Boatload of 63 refugees destined for Malaysia is brought ashore by Burmese authorities who hand each one and a half year terms
Surveys find that forced labour in northern Arakan state has intensified as authorities push ahead with construction of border fence
Bangladesh’s food minister tells US official that pressure by western nations to register Rohingya refugees is ‘keeping the problem alive’
Dhaka official says aid money would ‘increase tension between Rohingya and locals’ as rights groups criticise Bangladeshi polciy to refugees
Muslim clerics crossed over from Bangladesh to spearhead talks with Arakanese civilians about forming an anti-government militia
Pledges of citizenship and development for persecuted Muslim minority thwarted by continued forced labour reports in Arakan state
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