The long standing tragedy of the Myanmar Rohingya community was brought into sharp focus with the initial find by Thai authorities of mass graves on the Thai-Malaysian border. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Rohingya people’
Rohingya – Where to Now?
Posted in Reflections, tagged Arakan, Rakhine State Myanmar, Rohingya people on December 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Was Eid for all Muslims in Malaysia?
Posted in Reflections, tagged Bangladeshis, Eid celebration, human traffickers, immigration detention centers, Muslims, people smugglers, prisons, Rohingya people on August 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I’m not a Muslim, but after the arrival of the thousands stranded and abandoned at sea in June, the passing of Ramadan and the joyous Eid celebration among Muslims in Malaysia, I wonder if those desperate migrants and refugees towed in or washed up on our shores had any kind of celebration behind the barbed wire fences of Belantik Immigration Detention Center in Kedah, where they are housed. Many of them, Rohingya or Bangladeshi, are Muslims. (more…)
From Conflict to Captivity
Posted in Reflections, tagged Arakan, asylum seekers, conflict, ethnic cleansing, human traffickers, Myanmar, Rakhine State, refugees, Rohingya people on May 25, 2014| 5 Comments »
The plight of the Rohingya People is urgent! Persecution and statelessness are not the only oppression they face. As undocumented asylum seekers and refugees fleeing virtual ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State,which they call ‘Arakan State,’ in Myanmar, they face intense suffering in places where they hope to find safety and to live peacefully in freedom. (more…)
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