Kuala Lumpur: Thirty-seven Rohingya Muslims were discovered on the Kuala Perlis beach in Malaysia on Monday, authorities said, sparking fears of a fresh exodus of the minority community in Myanmar. This is the second group of Rohingyas found in northwest Peninsular Malaysia, near the border with Thailand, after 35 members[Read More…]
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Is Centre deporting Rohingyas keeping in mind 2019 elections?
India deported seven Rohingyas to Myanmar, the day after it celebrated 149th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of nation who was an apostle of non-violence, truth and humanity. Justifying the move, the Ministry of External Affairs on October 4 issued a statement in which it said that Rohingyas[Read More…]
Myanmar jails 2 Reuters reporters investigating Rohingya killings for 7 years
Two Reuters reporters were jailed on Monday for seven years for violating a state secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a court said, in the case that has drawn outrage for its attack on media freedom. The two journalists were being tried since 2017 for breaching Myanmar’s[Read More…]
3000 Rohingyas have been killed in Rakhine since 25 Aug : B’desh foreign minister
AH Mahmood Ali, Bangladesh foreign minister, on Tuesday said that 3,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed since 25 August, following the violence in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Tension had been escalating in the Rakhine state a month before the operation when the Myanmar government started increasing army deployment at[Read More…]
India sends 620 tonnes of food, mosquito nets for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
Almost 620 tonnes of food items were shipped from the Kakinada Deep Water Port in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district on Monday for distribution among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingyas fled Rakhine of Myanmar and had taken refuge in Bangladesh after onslaught from country’s army. The National Agricultural[Read More…]
We’re peace loving people, have no terror links: Rohingyas to SC
Days after the Centre told the Supreme Court that the Rohingya Muslims are “illegal” immigrants in the country and pose a serious threat to the country’s national security, an affidavit submitted by two Rohingyas in reply to the Centre’s plan to deport them on Friday stated that they are “peace-loving”[Read More…]
Rohingyas are ‘illegal immigrants’ and not refugees: Rajnath Singh
Union home minister, Rajnath Singh, on Thursday came out strongly against Rohingyas, and called them illegal immigrants. He said that it was wrong to call them as ‘refugees’ since they were ‘illegal immigrants’ who haven’t followed the procedure to be given the refugee status. He also said that India wouldn’t[Read More…]