Tag: Rohingyas

Level of Myanmar army brutality ‘hard to fathom’: UN probe

open view web desk Myanmar’s army has used unfathomable levels of violence against minority Rohingya, UN investigators said Tuesday, calling for the military to be removed from politics and top generals to be prosecuted for genocide. In the most meticulous breakdown of the violence in Myanmar to date, […]

Catalogue of abuse: seeking justice for the Rohingya

open view web desk Cross-legged in a windowless, almost pitch-black bamboo shack, the investigator pressed record on a video camera and asked the young Rohingya woman to describe the night the Myanmar soldiers came. “They broke down our door. They took my husband outside and shot him,” recalled […]

Fear and isolation for Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya

open view web desk By the twisted standards of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Abdullah is one of its more fortunate Rohingya residents. The 34-year-old is alive, his village is intact and he is able to make a living — albeit a meagre one — in his homeland as a […]

U.N. says 100,000 Rohingya in grave danger from monsoon rains

open view web desk GENEVA – More than 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year monsoon season begins, a U.N. humanitarian report said. There are now more than 900,000 Rohingyas in the Cox’s Bazar area […]

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