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Indonesian envoy to urge Burma to halt violence against Rohingya Muslims
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has sent his foreign minister to Burma to urge its government to halt violence against Rohingya Muslims, he said on Sunday after a petrol bomb was thrown at the Burmese Embassy in Jakarta.
Thousands of non-Muslims evacuated amid latest flare-up of violence in Arakan
Burma’s government said it has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in northwestern Arakan State, as thousands more Rohingya Muslims sought to flee across the border to Bangladesh on Sunday.
‘What will we eat?’ Muslims from Arakan State struggle after camp closures
Authorities have begun the process of shuttering IDP camps in Arakan State, but rights advocates worry that initial efforts don't bode well for a larger-scale relocation of the state's Muslim minority.
Kaman Muslims struggle to fit in
One Kaman man said that more than 1,000 men holding swords surrounded his village in 2012. But he escaped the mob, hiding in a pigsty owned by Arakanese Buddhist friends.
As Muslims meet, Malaysian PM tells Burma to ‘stop the killing’ of Rohingya
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called on Burma on Thursday to stop all discrimination and attacks on Rohingya Muslims, and urged the world’s Islamic countries to act to end an unfolding “humanitarian tragedy.”
ICJ warns on plans to arm non-Muslims in Arakan
The International Commission of Jurists, a human rights watchdog, calls plans to arm non-Muslims as a defense force in Arakan State "a recipe for disaster".
