At least 42 Myanmar refugees have died in a raging fire at a camp in Thailand, officials have said. (more…)
More than 2,300 refugees who became homeless when fire destroyed their shelters in Mae Surin refugee camp, in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province, have received immediate assistance but need supplies to rebuild their homes. (more…)
At least 32 Myanmar refugees died Friday in a raging fire at a camp in Thailand, officials said.
A diarrhoea outbreak in a camp for displaced Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar killed at least three children early this month, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said. (more…)
Sicknesses are spreading among children living in the Kutupalong and Leda unofficial refugee camps. Anwer, a refugee committee member from Kutupalong makeshift camp, said that many children from ages 5 to 7 are getting sick with chicken pox, measles, pneumonia or coming down with fevers. (more…)
(Unofficial Translation)
The journalist of Hongkong TV asked the question (at the meeting with the members of the National People’s Congress, which is in session this week): It is said that a large number of border residents swarmed into Yunnan because of the war in Myanmar, what is the governor’s view on it? (more…)
Malaysian authorities have rescued at least 136 people believed to be ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing strife in Myanmar aboard a leaking boat with no food or water, an official said on Monday. (more…)
Fishermen in western Indonesia rescued more than 60 ethnic Rohingya asylum-seekers from Myanmar found adrift in a wooden boat, police said Friday, in the second such arrival this week. (more…)
?A boatload of 121 Muslim Rohingya fleeing Burma arrived off the Indonesian coast of Aceh this week. They are just some of thousands of Rohingya fleeing Burma by sea, in a deadly exodus that the United Nations plans to discuss at a conference in Jakarta next month. Human rights groups worry the situation could lead to more sectarian violence. (more…)
Fishermen in western Indonesia rescued more than 100 ethnic Rohingya who had sailed from Myanmar, an official said Wednesday, with an asylum seeker claiming they had been shot at in Thai waters. (more…)
Although the term “Rohingya” is subject to various interpretations, it has been used in recent times primarily to cover the ethnic Muslim minority found in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Rohingya have sadly been in the news because of the violence, discrimination, dispossession and marginalisation to which they have been subjected. The depth of their tragedy cries out for a robust helping hand from their state of origin and the international community. (more…)
UNHCR on Friday said it was concerned about the growing number of people dying in the Bay of Bengal after setting out by boat in search of safety and better lives in other countries, including desperate ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar. The refugee agency called on regional governments to do more to prevent further tragedy on the high seas. (more…)
Australia will boost aid by $2.5 million to Myanmar’s (Burma’s) displaced ethnic communities, but has ruled out an “open door” policy to ethnic Muslim Rohingya seeking asylum in Australia after fleeing sectarian violence. (more…)
Malaysian police have detained 102 Myanmar nationals who tried to enter the country by boat on the island of Penang in the country’s northwest, according to Malaysian daily The Star. (more…)
Sri Lankan media is reporting on Wednesday that the 32 Myanmar nationals rescued by the Sri Lankan navy on Saturday are refusing to return to their home country. (more…)
A group of 32 Myanmar nationals rescued by the Sri Lankan navy have claimed that nearly 100 others are missing at sea, police said on Sunday. (more…)
Activists say that up to 19,000 people – mostly Rohingya Muslims – have set sail from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state to Thailand to escape violence and deteriorating living conditions. (more…)
Thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, who were uprooted after sectarian clashes in western Burma last year, are still not registered as internally displaced persons (IDPs) by the government and continue to be denied humanitarian assistance, local sources have warned. (more…)
Last Tuesday afternoon, the Thai Navy stopped a fishing boat off the coast of the holiday island of Phuket. It wasn’t a routine procedure however – naval officers couldn’t board the rickety looking craft because there wasn’t room for them to stand on it. Every single inch of it was packed with desperate human beings from neighbouring Burma. (more…)
Thailand will turn away any more Rohingya boat people from neighbouring Myanmar [Burma] who try to land on its shores, a top official said Monday after an influx of refugees fleeing sectarian unrest. (more…)