The Muslim Post

I visited the Rohingya camps in Myanmar and here is what I saw

I visited the Rohingya camps in Myanmar and here is what I saw

Cresa Pugh, Harvard University Myanmar recently claimed to have repatriated its first Rohingya refugee family. But, as an official from the United Nations noted, the country is still not safe for the return of its estimated 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees, who fled to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape an ongoing state-sponsored military campaign and persecution […]

UN Rights Chief: Send Alleged Crimes Against Rohingya to ICC

UN Rights Chief: Send Alleged Crimes Against Rohingya to ICC

The highest-ranking United Nations human rights official has called for alleged crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority population to be assigned to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein referred allegations of atrocities to the ICC at a Friday news conference in Geneva. “There are strong […]

‘Major challenges’ face repatriation of Rohingya Muslims

The UN refugee agency has warned ‘major challenges’ must be overcome as a plan is announced to repatriate some 1,500 Rohingya Muslims per week from Bangladesh to Myanmar. The UNHCR says the ‘right of refugees to voluntarily return home’ is essential, adding that the Rohingya must be informed about the situation in their areas of […]

Rohingya women sold as sex slaves in Bangladesh

Rohingya women sold as sex slaves in Bangladesh

Rohingya girls and women in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are being sold as sex slaves, according to a victim and aid agencies. Fifteen-year-old Khartoun* told Al Jazeera she was sold into sex slavery after she arrived in Bangladesh by boat to escape a brutal military crackdown. She was alone – her mother, father and sister had […]

UN-listed Terror Group Found Collecting Donations for Rohingya in Pakistan

UN-listed Terror Group Found Collecting Donations for Rohingya in Pakistan

A Pakistan-based group listed as a terrorist outfit by the United Nations and the United States has been openly collecting donations in the name of helping Rohingya Muslims. People in Rawalpindi received leaflets inside some newspapers Monday requesting donations for the “oppressed Muslims of Burma,” an older name for Myanmar. People in parts of Pakistan’s […]

UNHCR: Risk of Terrorism ‘Very, Very High’ if Rohingya Crisis Persists

UNHCR: Risk of Terrorism 'Very, Very High' if Rohingya Crisis Persists

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, warned Wednesday of a high risk of terrorism in Myanmar and the region if the Rohingya crisis remains unresolved. Grandi recently visited Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, which is home to some 800,000 Rohingya refugees. Among those, 450,000 refugees recently fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, while more […]

Sri Lanka calls monks who attacked Rohingya ‘animals’

Sri Lanka calls monks who attacked Rohingya 'animals'

The Sri Lankan government Wednesday slammed a group of radical Buddhist monks who attacked Rohingya refugees on the island as “animals”, pledging action against police who failed to protect them. Rajitha Senaratne, a cabinet spokesman, said the government condemned Tuesday’s storming of a UN safe house where 31 Rohingya refugees, including 16 children and seven […]

Activist Group Accuses Myanmar Military of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Activist Group Accuses Myanmar Military of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

The activist group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Myanmar military of committing “crimes against humanity” as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Rakhine State. “The Burmese military is brutally expelling the Rohingya from northern Rakhine State,” said James Ross, legal and policy director at Human Rights Watch. “The massacres of […]

Hasina seeks return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar

Hasina seeks return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar

Bangladesh’s prime minister has accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya people and urged the country to allow the return of “hungry, distressed and hopeless” refugees. Sheikh Hasina told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that Bangladesh was sheltering more than 800,000 Rohingya, of whom 430,000 had arrived in the past three weeks.

UN urged to punish Myanmar army over Rohingya ‘atrocities’

UN urged to punish Myanmar army over Rohingya 'atrocities'

Pressure tightened on Myanmar Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on the country’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from Human Rights Watch came as the UN General Assembly prepared to convene in New York, with […]