By Dr. Habib Siddiqui - Kaladan News 11 October 2014 The Rohingya people of Myanmar (formerly Burma) who mostly live in the western part - the Rakhine (formerly Arakan) state, bordering Bangladesh, are undoubtedly the most persecuted people on earth. Denied citizenship in ...

By Aman Ullah - Kaladan News 11 October 2014 Burma has laid out a controversial plan to offer citizenship to Rohingya Muslims, described by the UN as the world's most persecuted minority, in exchange for registering their identities as Bengali. Foreign minister Wunna Maung ...

By Aman Ullah - Kaladan News 11 October 2014 On Burma attaining independence on 4th January 1948, it ceased to be a part of the British Commonwealth which it left of its own choice. However, at that time the inhabitants of the country ...

Rohingya News Agency - (Vitri Angreni): Myanmar's national government has reportedly drafted a plan that will give members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a choice: accept ethnic reclassification as ‘Bengalis and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained. Many Rohingya ...

C.R. Abrar - The Daily Star, Dhaka Sunday, October 12, 2014 Refugee protection is a core human rights issue. The fundamental right of seeking and enjoying asylum from persecution in other countries has been enshrined in Article 14(1) of the 1948 Universal Declaration ...

The Daily Star Editorial Monday, September 29, 2014 ACCORDING to a news report carried in this paper on Sunday the Myanmar government has drafted a plan to offer the Rohingyas an option to register as ‘Bengalis’ or face detention in camps. This ...

International Committee of the Red Cross 10 SEPTEMBER 2014 Five months after violence disrupted humanitarian operations in Rakhine state, the ICRC has restarted a full range of activities there for the Muslim and ethnic Rakhine communities alike. "The Muslim and ethnic Rakhine communities ...

By Aman Ullah - facebook 04 Sept 2014 In 1962, General Ne Win led a coup d'état and established a nominally socialist military government that sought to follow the "Burmese Way to Socialism." The Ne Win government nationalized the economy and pursued a ...

By IGOR BLAZEVIC - irrawaddy July 14, 2014 In 1974, there were only 35 democracies in the world, among them the United States, Canada, western and northern European countries, India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. That was less than 30 percent of the ...