“It is most likely that terrorist organisations based in other countries are backing the ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists,” he said.
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Burmese govt denied me access, says UN envoy Lee
A UN envoy accuses Burmese authorities of conducting surveillance on some of the people she met on previous visits.
Anti-Rohingya demonstrators take to the streets
Buddhist nationalists take to the streets to vent their ire at the international community for pressuring Burma to accommodate Rohingya boat people.
The R-word, and its ramifications
A former UK ambassador says the name “Rohingya” was unknown to British colonial administrators, and that Western insistence on using the term is not helping the Bengali community’s cause.
Census-takers fail to count Rohingyas
Census-takers are locked in a standoff with Rohingya householders in Arakan State as the Muslim minority decline to answer questions while the enumerators refuse to record their ethnicity on the…
Allow Rohingyas citizenship, UN tells Burma
The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee passes a resolution urging Burma to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to citizenship and to crack down on Buddhist violence against…