The Rohingya people of Myanmar (known as Burma before 1989) were stripped of citizenship in 1982, because they could not meet the requirement of proving their forefathers settled in Burma before 1823, and now account for one in seven of the global population of stateless people. Of the total...
Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, a declaration intended to both generate international pressure and lay the groundwork for potential legal action. Authorities made the determination based on confirm...
Meanwhile, civil society groups and Myanmar’s Muslim community, who make up about 4 per cent of the population, have criticised Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration for doing little to calm the country’s sectarian tensions. Myanmar saw deadly anti-Muslim riots in 2013, before her administration...
Reporting on the massacre by Reuters has led to the arrest of two of the agency's journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who remain in prison under accusations of breaking Myanmar's official secrets act. Image:Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo remain detained in Myanmar The villag...
Bangladesh is currently hosting nearly a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and more than half of the refugee population comprises women. In Myanmar, due to the government-imposed securitization and relatively conservative culture, Rohingya women were not able to enjoy the...
Around 1 million displaced Rohingya people from Myanmar are currently living in Bangladesh, according to the statement. "We greatly appreciate the Government of Bangladesh's generosity in supporting nearly 1 million Rohingya people. We also recognize the enormous pressure placed on the host communities...
Nearly 1.3 million Rohingya are sheltering in the makeshift camps of Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh after fleeing intense genocidal operation in Arakan (Rakhine) state. Since then Bangladesh has hosted this huge population and Rohingya from the camps have always shown their appreciation and gratitude to...
Myanmar's Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia: Education and the Way Forward: (doi: 10.14425/00.50.24) The Rohingya, a persecuted minority, has faced decades of harsh treatment and made stateless by the military government in Myanmar. To escape from this severe repression, most Rohingya flee to Bangla...
The new numbers represent roughly a third of the country’s Rohingya people, a stateless Muslim minority, although the Myanmar government doesn’t release exact population figures. Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Myanmar, said Friday that at least 1,000 pe...
We discuss the results in the context of the current theories of trauma and mental health and suggest therapeutic interventions for the refugee population.doi:10.1007/s00127-020-01962-1Sanjida KhanShamsul HaqueSocial Psychiatry