One year on: Daily struggle makes Rohingya forget wounds and worries
Rohingya labourer Jamal struggles to carry bricks in the Bangladesh camp that is now home, having lost an arm after being shot and left for dead fleeing an attack in…
Climate crisis
In the run-up to COP26, much of the conversation has dealt with predictions about the future and forthcoming pledges for more decisive action: carbon neutral by 2030, net zero by…
The abandoned Rohingya
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar. Descendants of Arab traders, these people have a distinct language and different cultures from the Buddhist community. In 1982, the Myanmar…
The plight of the Rohingya
Exactly three years ago, on August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military embarked on a ‘clearance operation’ against the Rohingya in the country’s northern Rakhine state. Under the pretence of ‘fighting…
Asean and the Rohingya
After fighters attacked security targets in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state on August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military responded by killing and maiming thousands of Rohingya civilians, raping hundreds of women…
Rohingya blood on our hands
By announcing a token aid of $32 million to the Rohingya Muslims, the US has at last acknowledged the deepening humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar. Given the overwhelming nature of the…
No tears for the Rohingya
Reading about the Jewish Holocaust in Hitler’s Germany, I often wonder how the world could have just stood around and allowed this catastrophe to happen on its watch. More than…
Young Rohingya
More than 2,680 children have been separated from their parents, either orphaned or lost in the chaos of escape from Myanmar. This is a children’s emergency of the highest order.…
Root of the issue
THERE’S not an issue that hasn’t been highlighted amongst the problems faced by this country; there’s not an individual that hasn’t been slandered; there’s no solution that hasn’t been put…
Myanmar’s shameless behaviour
Reports of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim community present a heartbreaking picture of suffering humanity. Since August 25, when the latest violence erupted, soldiers and Buddhist militants acting together have torched several…
