BY LUCY WESTCOTT - News Week 5/11/15 FILED UNDER: World, Rohingya, Rohingya Muslims, Refugees, Indonesia, Malaysia, Boat Migrants Around 1,600 refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh were rescued off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday and detained in Malaysia on Monday. Malaysian officials said Monday that ...

By Aman Ullah - KPN May 11, 2015 “The finding of a mass grave at a trafficking camp sadly comes as little surprise. The long involvement of Thai officials in trafficking means that an independent investigation with UN involvement is necessary to ...

By Aman Ullah - KPN May 6, 2015 Along the nearly 1,000-kilometer refugee passage from western Burma to southern Thailand lies a string of mass graves occupied by a single ethnic group — the Rohingya.  United to End Genocide The Burmese successive junta, ...

Dr. Habib Siddiqui - eur asia review May 9, 2015 Genocide is a serious matter and not a term that can be bandied around willy-nilly. Recently the museum staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of ...

By Dr Habib Siddiqui - Kaladan News May 3, 2015 The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recently issued its report on Myanmar (Burma). The key findings of the USCIRF are: “In 2014, religious and ethnic minorities in Burma continued to ...

By Habib Siddiqui Friday, May 1, 2015 The news below is extracted from Channel 4 News and HRW news clips: In a troubled world, people do extraordinary things for a better life. Fleeing poverty or persecution – or perhaps both – tens of ...

By Aman Ullah - kaladannews April 29, 2015 “Human beings, the world over, need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.”   Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Organized society is, perhaps, primarily the product of mankind’s search of security ...

By Aman Ullah - Kaladan Press April 21, 2015 The government of Myanmar has hired lobbyists in Washington for the first time in more than a decade, signing a contract worth US$840,000 (K840 million) with the Podesta Group,  a powerful US lobbying firm, ...

By MAKOTO IGARASHI/ Correspondent April 20, 2015 The days when the generals lorded it over Myanmar are gone, but some ethnic minorities still live in fear of the military. The ruling junta in Myanmar was replaced in March 2011 by a civilian government, ...