Showing posts with label Rohingya A Muslim Ethnic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rohingya A Muslim Ethnic. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni told the Burmese Rohingyas are your citizens, and it is your concern to take them back in Myanmar from Bangladesh.”

Bangladesh tells Burmese ambassador to take back Rohingyas 

The Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni told the Burmese ambassador on Wednesday, “Rohingyas are your citizens, and it is your concern to take them back in Myanmar from Bangladesh.” 


 Dipu Moni told Ambassador Myo Myint Than that Burma has a responsibility to repatriate Rohingya refugees, who are estimated to number as high as 500,000, in order to strengthen the bilateral relationship, according to BSS, the national news agency of Bangladesh.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Democracy and killings in Burma: Gold rush overrides human rights

The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma - or Myanmar - have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage and decisive efforts to bring further human rights abuses to an immediate halt. "Burmese helicopter set fire to three boats carrying nearly 50 Muslim Rohingyas fleeing sectarian violence in western Burma in an attack that is believed to have killed everyone on board," reported Radio Free Europe on July 12.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Go to Myanmar and carry out jihad for your Muslim brothers

Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners protested outside the Myanmar embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Friday to “stop the genocide” of Rohingya Muslims in the wake of deadly communal unrest. Around 300 hard-liners from organizations, including the Islamic ,

Defenders Front (FPI) and Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), threatened to storm the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta as some 50 police officers guarded the building. “If embassy officials refuse to talk with us, I demand all of you break into the building and turn it upside down,” a leader on a loudspeaker told protesters, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest)

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Rohingya shot by Burmese police has died in Bangladesh.

Several key elements of the spiraling sectarian violence in western Burma are not getting picked up on by media. There is of course an issue with verification, particularly in a situation like this where emotions can fuel propaganda, where communication is very difficult and where the conflict is so inflammatory. But nevertheless it’s worth bringing them to the table.