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U.N.’s Zeid Toughens Warning of ‘Genocide’ in Myanmar
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein said Myanmar’s “flippant” response to the serious concerns of the international community made him fear...
6,700 Rohingya Muslims Killed in First Month of Crackdown in Myanmar: MSF
In the most conservative estimations” at least 6,700 of those deaths have been caused by violence, including at least 730 children under the age...
Rohingya Crisis: Red Cross Faced With ‘Real Challenge’
“The specificity of the situation is that only the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement is allowed to work in Rakhine State as humanitarian...
‘Say the Word’: What the Rohingya Struggle is Really About
By stripping the Rohingya from any name affiliation that makes them a unique collective, it becomes possible, then, to deny them their rights, to...
Pope’s Rohingya Embrace Sparks Angry Backlash on Social Media in Myanmar
As Pope Francis arrived back at the Vatican, the pontiff said he had taken up the Rohingya cause in private in Myanmar, also describing...