The Baxter report on Indian population in British occupied Burma notes, “The tracing of the growth of the Indian population through the series of census reports is a matter of some complexity. It was not until the sixth census, that of ...

KÜBRA GÖKÇE Weekly Zaman December 10, 2012 ‘Stateless people are some of the most forgotten people in the world today. Statelessness is a complex issue that many people in the world today don’t even know exists. Many people can’t even fathom that a ...

By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Rakhine state, Burma Six months of sectarian violence has driven more than 100,000 people from their homes in western Burma. Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim communities that have lived separately for generations are now forcibly segregated. Barriers have been ...

Since 8th June, fleeing the desperate situation of the hidden genocide has been becoming the only worry for most Rohingyas. Government backed atrocities and brutalities of Rakhines, isolation of the area from the world and media, occurrence of such bloodshed ...

by Fayas Ahmed Rohingya babies and children are dying from malnutrition inside the camps or outside the camp in Arakan State. The President Thein Sein’s government is implementing its own ethnic cleansing policy, using starvation in place of shooting to kill ...

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui The Burmese history is replete with accusations against the British government of following a policy of divide and rule; deliberately separating the hilly people from the Burmans/Burmese. According to historian Maung Aung, this policy had the full support ...

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui When the British occupied Arakan, the country was a scarcely populated area. Consequently, Habib_Siddiqui_13.jpg formerly high-yield paddy fields of the fertile Kaladan and Lemro river valleys germinated nothing but wild plants for many years. It is worth noting here that ...

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui To many Burmese and Rakhine Buddhists of today’s Myanmar the existence of the non-Buddhist Rohingya people is mostly seen as a direct result of Indian, or more particularly, Bengali immigration during the post-1826 era of British occupation ...

Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian Phuket Wan December 9, 2012 PHUKET: Rohingya fleeing ethnic cleansing and starvation in Burma are driving a surge in business for people traffickers on the Thai border with Malaysia. The would-be refugees, who arrive by boat, are imprisoned in ...