by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | World
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are seeing a “hell on earth” by living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. Up to 12,000 more...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 28, 2017 | World
New York- Representatives of UN agencies will be permitted to visit Rakhine state in Myanmar on Thursday for the first time since the start of a massive exodus of minority Rohingya Muslims in August. “There will be a trip organized by the government, probably...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 21, 2017 | World
Buddhist protesters in Myanmar threw petrol bombs to try to block a shipment of aid to Muslims in Rakhine state, where the United Nations has accused the military of ethnic cleansing, before police fired in the air to disperse them. According to Reuters, the incident...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 19, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz has ordered the allocation of $15 million to alleviate the suffering of the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority fleeing Rakhine state terror in Myanmar. Royal Court adviser and general supervisor of the King Salman Center for...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 19, 2017 | World
In her first public remarks on the violence against Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Tuesday any human rights violations in the turbulent Rakhine state as rights groups said a systematic purge was being committed against the minority...
