Covid-19 and the Rohingya refugee crisis
Mar 31 2020 – All around the world, the numbers are climbing. Each day registers thousands of new cases and lives lost. In Europe, now the epicenter of the pandemic, governments know that the worst is yet to come and are implementing increasingly restrictive...
Open joint letter to PM: Lift ban on communication at Rohingya camps amid Covid-19 pandemic
The organizations said such measures pose threat to the safety and well-being of the refugees as well as Ban gladesh host communities and aid workers Some 50 undersigned organizations have urged the Bangladesh government to lift ongoing mobile internet restrictions...
Bangladesh: Internet Ban Risks Rohingya Lives
The Bangladesh government’s internet blackout and phone restrictions at Rohingya refugee camps are obstructing humanitarian groups from addressing the COVID-19 threat, Human Rights Watch said today. The shutdown is risking the health and lives of over a million...
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House of Commons unanimously votes to call Myanmar Rohingya killings a genocide
In a rare show of unanimity, MPs on Thursday agreed to call the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Myanmar an act of genocide. Commons Liberal MP Andrew Leslie, who is parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, rose following...
UN gets access to Rakhine
The UN began work inside Myanmar’s violence-torn northern Rakhine state yesterday, the first time its agencies have been granted permission to operate there since more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the area last year. The UN has been waiting for access to...
Rohingya Genocide Under Spotlight in London
The Justice For Rohingya Minority (JFRM) held a roundtable discussion Monday in London on the genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and offered solutions to the crisis. The panel of speakers included Peter Oborne, an author and columnist for the Daily Mail,...
Suu Kyi’s Choice: Press to Free Jailed Myanmar Journalists or Stay Silent
With her reputation damaged by Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi is under pressure to secure amnesty for two journalists jailed after exposing military atrocities, as worries deepen about the country’s backsliding toward...
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