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2018-12-18 09:33
By: Syed Zafar Mehdi
‘Rohingya refugees want to go back home but with safety and dignity’
TEHRAN - Prof. Nasir uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh, and professor of anthropology at Chittagong University. He has been working with Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar for more than two decades and has written on the Rohingya refugee situation extensively in the form of both academic and popular pieces. His forthcoming ethnography is named The Rohingyas: A Case of Subhuman (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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2018-12-10 21:22
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
‘Genocide is slow strangulation of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine’
The heart-rending stories of Rohingya refugees continue to pour out from the refugee camps of Bangladesh, where they live in impoverished condition, and from Rakhine state, where they face incarceration. The repatriation plan has been shelved following calls by the international aid organizations that the timing was not feasible for their return.
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2018-11-29 02:35
Fleeing Rohingya sent back to Rakhine
TEHRAN _Nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims were forcibly sent back to Myanmar's volatile Rakhine state after being detained at sea while heading to Malaysia, country’s police said on Wednesday.
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2018-11-19 22:30
Rohingya repatriation plan shelved
TEHRAN - The plan to expatriate Rohingya refugees from the crowded camps in Cox’s Bazar has been temporarily abandoned with Bangladesh now set to go to the polls on December 30, according to reports.
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2018/06/24
International assistance urgently needed for Rohingya refugees, says Amnesty
Amnesty International, the global rights watchdog body, has called on the international community to urgently step up assistance for more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district in the wake of severe monsoon season.
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2017-09-10 09:06
By Peter Popham
The only good thing Aung San Suu Kyi can do now is resign
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has in the past made some odd decisions. Henry Kissinger was its most glaring error.
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2017-07-17 09:07
Congress shouldn’t let Burma backslide on democratic reforms
As a political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi relied on the exiled television station Democratic Voice of Burma and magazine Irrawaddy to tell her story.
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2016-12-04 10:48
By Harun Yahya
A death-dealing journey for a better life
Fear… Have you ever wondered how it feels like to live life in a constant state of fear? First you probably have to experience extreme difficulty in order to understand the magnitude of the danger that the Rohingyas are in. However since that will likely not be possible, you can never truly understand or feel how a Rohingya residing in the Rakhine State lives with threat for his or her life. They live through this persistent fear and continue their lives in very harsh conditions in several registered or mostly unregistered camps.
