Tag: Freedom of Religion
Nameless Graves Mark the End of Tortured Existence for Rohingya in Thailand
PHUKET: Five boatpeople, victims of Thailand's traffickers, were buried in a Songkhla village yesterday while others continue to suffer disease and cramped conditions in secret jungle ''animal pens'' or official confinement.
Local Muslim authorities say that deaths from diseases and severe conditions are likely to continue until Thailand's government recognises...
Thai officials say Rohingya people sent to Myanmar
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities said Thursday they deported about 1,300 of Rohingya boat people back to Myanmar late last year, ignoring calls from human rights groups not to send the ethnic minorities home where they face widespread discrimination.
The deportations were announced this week but took place in waves...
Thailand Sends 1,300 Rohingya Back to Hell
Thailand says it has deported around 1,300 Rohingya asylum seekers back to Burma (officially known as Myanmar), in a move dubbed “appalling” by human rights activists.
The figure represents virtually all of the Rohingya boatpeople who have washed up on Thai shores.
“The deportations were voluntary. We sent them back 100...
Silence as Myanmar ‘genocide’ unfolds
On January 23, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar and humanitarian chiefs voiced "deep concern" on reports of "alarming levels of violence" against ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar's western Rakhine State. When their houses were being robbed in DuChiraDan village, Maungdaw, the Rohingya residents called for...
MSF, Human Rights Commission at Odds Over Maungdaw Violence
RANGOON — Burma’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are at odds over the latter’s statement that it treated 22 people injured during clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, near the Burma-Bangladesh border.
MSF, sometimes called Doctors Without...
Quintana slams Maungdaw investigation
The human rights situation in Burma has improved, UN envoy Tomás Ojea Quintana said at Yangon Airport on Wednesday, speaking at a press conference that concluded a six-day visit to the country and also marked the end of his six-year mandate as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights...
Cambodia Vows to Bring Perpetrators of ‘Racist’ Killing to Justice
Cambodian authorities on Thursday gave assurances they would carry out a thorough investigation into the beating death of a Vietnamese-Cambodian man in what is believed to have been a racially-motivated attack, following concerns expressed by the Vietnamese government.
Nguyen Yaing Ngoc, 28, was chased and attacked by a group of...
UN envoy urges impartial probe into Myanmar Rohingya ‘killings’
The United Nation's rights envoy to Myanmar has raised "serious concerns" over the impartiality of a government investigation into allegations of deadly attacks on Rohingya Muslims in the country's Rakhine state.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, has warned that tensions in Rakhine, could...
Myanmar President’s Office Concerned Over Disruption of Literary Events
Myanmar President Thein Sein’s office has expressed concern over the recent disruption of literary events in the country following objections that the speakers were Muslims or opposition members or those affiliated with the two groups.
Presidential spokesman Ye Htut said it was “against the constitution” to prevent people from...
Myanmar leader proposes interfaith marriage law
Myanmar's president has asked parliament to consider an intermarriage law, spearheaded by an extremist monk, that is aimed at "protecting" Buddhists in the former junta-ruled nation.
The move follows several waves of anti-Muslim violence that have coincided with a groundswell of Buddhist nationalism.
While the proposals from Thein Sein, in a...
