Habib Siddiqui

        BHRN Welcomes UK Government’s Decision to Join Rohingya Genocide Case at the ICJ   26 Aug 2022   Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) welcomes the decision by the UK government to support the genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On 25 August, Minister for Asia Amanda Milling confirmed the UK’s intention to intervene in the  case of The...

  One million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh refugee camps and the persecuted group has little hope of returning to Myanmar Due to long-standing oppression and violence in Myanmar, one million Rohingya people live in refugee camps in Bangladesh.  Composite: Damir Šagolj/Getty images Global development is supported by About this content Kaamil Ahmed Thu 25 Aug 2022 15.44 AEST It has been five years since Myanmar’s military launched a campaign of massacres that killed about 7,000 Rohingya in a single month and compelled 700,000 to flee for the Bangladeshi border. Since the first major military operation against the Rohingya minority in 1978, which forced out 200,000, the Rohingya have been collectively stripped of their citizenship and targeted by increasing violence and discrimination that culminated in the “clearance operations” that began on 25 August 2017. Those operations were years in the planning, according to military documents uncovered by the  Commission for Intern...

  Dubbed by pundits as a development “miracle”, Bangladesh is slated for graduation from the status of “Least Developed Country” to “Developing Country” by 2026. Yet, suddenly, the nation finds itself battling comparisons with Sri Lanka, which has just experienced an economic free-fall. Bangladeshi mainstream media and social media are flooded with speculations about the country’s impending collapse like its fellow South Asian nation. KEEP READING list of 4 items list 1 of 4 UK sees 80-percent energy price hike amid cost-of-living crisis list 2 of 4 District beside Beijing locks down over single COVID-19 case list 3 of 4 China drops some COVID rules for travellers but keeps quarantine list 4 of 4 Japan to spend $1.83m on ex-PM Abe’s state funeral end of list Everyone from the prime minister’s office and groups of eminent economists to the American ambassador in Dhaka has chimed in to argue why they believe Bangladesh is still far removed from a Sri Lanka-like cataclysmic ...

  Image caption, Yasmin is one among thousands of Rohingya children who are unable to get proper education In her four fragile years, Yasmin has lived a life of uncertainty, unsure where she belongs. Born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, she is unable to return to her ancestral village in Myanmar. At the moment, a dingy room in India's capital, Delhi, serves as home. Like hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people - an ethnic minority in Myanmar - Yasmin's parents fled the country in 2017 to escape a campaign of genocide launched by the military. Many fled to neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and India, where they live as refugees. Five years on, Rohingya Muslims - the world's largest stateless population, according to the UN - remain in limbo. Yasmin's father, Rehman, was a businessman in Myanmar. As the military brutally attacked people, he became one of 700,000 Rohingyas who fled in a mass exodus. After walking for days, Rehman and his wife Mahmuda made it to the ...