Displaced and Refugees

AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | – – “Late at night, Dudu Mia and his family wash up on the shores of Bangladesh. Their village in neighboring Myanmar was attacked by the military in an ongoing campaign to purge the Rohingya Muslim minority from the country; the refugees bring with them countless horror stories of […]

‘They shot my two daughters in front of me’: Burma’s Rohingya tell heartbreaking stories of loss

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By Ronan Lee | (The Conversation) | – – If there’s anything positive about the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, it’s that the residents – despite their appalling recent experiences and obvious deprivation – are at least safe here from Myanmar’s military. I’ve been visiting Rohingya refugee camps close to the Bangladesh/Myanmar […]

Displaced and Refugees

Is racial bias driving Trump’s neglect of Puerto Rico?

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By Lauren Lluveras | (The Conversation) | – – The morning after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, I emailed my aunt to ask if she was safe. That was Sept. 21. I heard back from her on Oct. 10. She was fine, she assured me, but “Puerto Rico is destroyed.” After that, my tia […]

Buddhism

Burma: New Satellite Images Confirm Mass Destruction of Rohingya

Juan Cole

Human Rights Watch | – – 288 Villages, Tens of Thousands of Structures Torched (New York) – Newly released satellite images reveal that at least 288 villages were partially or totally destroyed by fire in northern Rakhine State in Burma since August 25, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. The destruction encompassed tens of thousands […]

Climate Change

Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico

Juan Cole

Marc Anthony calls Trump approach to Puerto Rico disaster “tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful”

Displaced and Refugees

More civilian Airstrike Deaths under Trump than in 8 years of Obama

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More civilian deaths under first 7 months of Trump than in entire Obama Administration

Buddhism

Rohingya Refugee Women Bring Stories of Unspeakable Violence

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Buddhist persecution of Muslim Burmese Continues

Displaced and Refugees

Yemen: Is Saudi Coalition deliberately Blocking Aid and Fuel to Civilians?

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Human Rights Watch | – – Houthi-Saleh Obstruction also Heightens Crisis (Beirut) – The Saudi-led coalition’s restrictions on imports to Yemen have worsened the dire humanitarian situation of Yemeni civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The restrictions, in violation of international humanitarian law, have delayed and diverted fuel tankers, closed a critical port, and stopped […]

Buddhism

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

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By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | – – Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the country and seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.Ludovica Marchi argues that the EU should take advantage of its good relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help ease […]