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A 12-hour gunbattle and the torching of a refugee settlement alongside the Bangladesh-Myanmar border thrust the Rohingya Solidarity Group, an outdated armed rebel group, again into the highlight.  The preventing final month between members of RSO and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Military (ARSA) insurgents left not less than one individual …

Commercial The Rohingya minority is going through a genocide launched by the Myanmar navy, or Tatmadaw. It’s inflicting one of many world’s largest refugee crises. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya at the moment are sheltered in refugee camps exterior of Myanmar, however the largest quantity – over 1,000,000 – are …

In early January, a ship with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. That they had spent weeks at sea in determined circumstances, fleeing cramped and overcrowded camps in Bangladesh seeking a greater life. Greater than half have been girls and kids. Sadly, they’re removed …

Southeast Asian rights group Fortify Rights and 16 Myanmar nationals have filed a prison grievance with Germany’s federal public prosecutor basic towards Myanmar’s junta for atrocities dedicated towards ethnic Rohingya and different teams. The 215-page grievance, with greater than 1,000 pages of annexes, was filed on Jan. 20 beneath the …

Survivors of army abuses in Myanmar have lodged a legal grievance in Germany, asking prosecutors to analyze and convey to trial these liable for committing atrocities throughout crackdowns on opponents of the February 2021 coup, and towards the Rohingya minority. Fortify Rights, an advocacy group, introduced the submitting of the …

ASEAN Beat | Society | Southeast Asia More than 3,500 people attempted to flee Myanmar and Bangladesh by sea last year, nearly five times more than in 2021. Rohingya refugee children walking through the Unchiprang camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: European Union Advertisement Earlier this week, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) released …

A settlement of about 3,000 Rohingya refugees on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border was burnt to the ground Wednesday after an hours-long gunfight between Rohingya militant groups that left at least one person dead, sources said. The two armed groups engaged one another in a firefight with reports that Rohingya shelters were …

ASEAN Beat | Society | Southeast Asia The leaky picket vessel is simply the newest to succeed in the shores of Aceh, as an increasing number of refugees undertake the damaging ocean crossings. Ethnic Rohingya individuals sit on a seashore after touchdown in Aceh Besar, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Credit score: AP Photograph/Irwandi …

Commercial Rohingya refugees embarking on perilous sea voyages is nothing new. At the moment of yr, when the climate turns into calmer, hundreds of Rohingya civilians sometimes set off from the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh on treacherous boat journeys throughout the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, within …

Wirathu has lengthy been identified for his ultra-nationalist, anti-Muslim rhetoric, significantly in opposition to Myanmar’s Rohingya. An ultranationalist monk in Myanmar, who was as soon as dubbed the “face of Buddhist terror” over his function in promoting religious hatred against Muslims, has obtained a prestigious nationwide award because the nation’s …

Commercial Rohingya refugees are more and more embarking upon hazardous journeys to Southeast Asia to flee the risks of an unsure life within the refugee camps of japanese Bangladesh. In early December, round 150 such refugees have been stranded at sea off Thailand’s coast after their boat broke down. Rights …

ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia The boat, which set off from Bangladesh in late November, has been adrift since its engines failed on December 1. Rohingya refugees cross into Bangladesh after fleeing violent assaults in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, September 10, 2017. Credit score: Depositphotos Commercial Issues are rising for a bunch of …