Security forces and vigilante mobs in Myanmar are carrying out a scorched-earth policy in the majority-Muslim region of Rakhine State, burning down entire Rohingya villages and shooting at people as they try to flee, Amnesty International has said. According to new satellite imagery, fire-detection data, photographs and videos from the[…]
While #SA4Rohingya campaign has garnered attention among locals, Wednesday’s Stop Rohingya Genocide protest in the Cape Town CBD, with the presence of individuals from various foreign national communities, showed that the call for an end to the violence against the Rohingya has reached crisis level. With an influx of Bangladeshi,[…]
In what has been one of the most diverse marches in Cape Town, on Wednesday thousands of people took to the streets to protest the persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar. According to estimates, over 2000 people participated in the march, which got underway from Keizergracht. The protest was led[…]
Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York. A spokesperson for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday that the Nobel Peace Prize winner had withdrawn from the meeting in New[…]
Local human rights activists have accused Israel of fuelling the brutal violence against Rohingya in Myanmar by its continued sale of weapons to the military junta. More 300,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which the UN human rights chief has labelled as “ethnic cleansing”. Sixty Rohingya[…]
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis, following warnings by the organisation’s human rights chief that “ethnic cleansing” is taking place. Britain and Sweden requested Wednesday’s meeting against the backdrop of a growing humanitarian crisis. Around 370,000 of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya population have fled[…]
Rohingya fighters in Myanmar have declared a month-long unilateral ceasefire in their fight against the army to enable aid groups to address a humanitarian crisis in Rakhine state. The ceasefire announced on Saturday in a statement by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is scheduled to start on Sunday. “ARSA[…]
“There are no more villages left, none at all.” The accounts of the systematic ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar, now effectively ruled by the world renowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, are finally making it to the mainline news these days. “There are no more people[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council – SA and Al-Quds Foundation SA in collaboration with Protect the Rohingya is holding a protest calling attention to the plight of Rohingya Muslims currently fleeing persecution at the hands of Myanmar forces. With an upsurge in violence since August 25, 2017, scenes of fleeing Rohingya[…]
By Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar At this tragic time when we are witnessing increased acts of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people of Myanmar (a country that was previously known as Burma) I would like to draw our attention to the history and longstanding suffering one of the most[…]
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