Rohingyas Crisis

The Rohingya, a mainly Muslim group that is the world's largest stateless population, started fleeing in droves to Bangladesh in 2016 to escape what the United Nations has called a genocide at

The UN's human rights chief joined a chorus of concern on Friday for members of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority after many were reported killed in recent fighting between the military government and the Arakan Army, an armed ethnic rebel group. According to a statement from the Geneva office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk, he expressed grave alarm and raised profound concerns about the sharply deteriorating situation across Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State where hundreds of civilians have reportedly been killed while trying to flee the fighting. It said his agency had documented that both the military and the Arakan Army, which now controls most of the townships in Rakhine, have committed serious human rights violations and abuses against the Rohingya, including extrajudicial killings, some involving beheadings, abductions, forced recruitment, indiscriminate bombardments of towns and villages using drones and artillery, and arson attacks. The

An estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea without adequate supplies could die if more is not done to rescue them, according to the UN refugee agency and aid workers. The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing by boats in a seasonal exodus - usually from squalid, overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh - has been rising since last year due to cuts to food rations and a spike in gang violence. There are about 400 children, women and men looking death in the eye if there are no moves to save these desperate souls, Babar Baloch, the agency's Bangkok-based regional spokesperson, told The Associated Press. The whereabouts of the other boat were unclear. The boats apparently embarked from Bangladesh and are reported to have been at sea for about two weeks, he said. The captain of one of the boats, contacted by the AP, said he had 180 to 190 people on board. They were out of food and water and the engine was damaged. The captain, who gave his

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Myanmar's military-installed government Wednesday to include ethnic Rohingya in a solution to the country's political crisis. He commented on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the start of a mass exodus by the Muslim minority to Bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Guterres noted "the unflagging aspirations for an inclusive future" for the Rohingya, who face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Most are denied citizenship and many other rights. The long-simmering conflict with the Rohingya exploded on August 25, 2017, when Myanmar's military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine in response to attacks on police and border guards by a Rohingya militant group. More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh as troops allegedly committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes. In January 2020, the International .

Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long considered the Rohingya to be 'Bengalis' from Bangladesh even though their families have lived in the country for generations

The idea of welcoming every single person who crosses over into India is noble but who will create resources required to accommodate lakhs of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas?

One boat attempted to set sail from the southern coast of Bangladesh on Wednesday, while several vessels left Rakhine state in western Myanmar

The military has denied nearly all wrongdoing, justifying its crackdown as a legitimate means of rooting out Rohingya militants

Surveillance equipment from other BSF posts have been diverted and deployed all along the eastern frontier

Myanmar authorities are also implementing a rehabilitation and resettlement programmes

Britain said on Tuesday it had suspended its training programme for military in Myanmar because of the violence in Rakhine state

In domestic terms, Suu Kyi's rise to power has ultimately made little or no meaningful constitutional impact

Since October 2016, critical life-saving humanitarian activities have been severely restricted for the Rohingyas

This radicalization of a new generation of Rohingya, a Muslim minority in a Buddhist-majority country, adds fuel to an already combustible situation in Rakhine

Former Indian envoy to Bangladesh and Malaysia Veena Sikri explains the problem of the Rohingyas

This violence and persecution must stop, says Tillerson

Earlier, govt has decided to send consignments of humanitarian assistance to Dhaka

While multiple ethnic groups have been affected by the conflict, the international community has urged Myanmar govt to stop violence and take action to help the refugees

Each project needs government-to-government support to move even an inch

Myanmar has almost zero respect and care for international norms and diplomacy; obstructed UN-funded World Food Program attempts to provide aid to vulnerable people