Displaced and Refugees

Puerto Rico relief effort termed too slow and too small

Rohingya Genocide: Why isn’t the World Community Doing Something?

By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – The Rohingya of Myanmar are probably passing through the darkest time in their history, with the international community standing almost idle. While the Myanmar military and militant Buddhist monks are terrorizing this predominantly Muslim minority group and forcing them to mainly flee to neighboring Bangladesh, there […]

Trump’s Billionaire Cronies feed at Public Trough as he disses Puerto Rico

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s petulant tweet storm on Saturday accused Puerto Ricans of wanting everything done for them. He expressed these sentiments as his secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, was forced to resign for flying around on expensive government airplanes or charters, costing tax payers over […]

Displaced and Refugees

Rohingya crisis: this is what genocide looks like

contributors

Burmese Buddhist persecution of Muslim minority Continues

Buddhism

As Muslims rally for the Rohingya, what About the Rest of Us?

Juan Cole

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – If only Muslims reach out to help the Rohingya, the international community will suffer another blow to its reputation. They were Muslims, and they were leaving the country in droves. Their homeland, a remote corner of a multiethnic country, had become a […]

Displaced and Refugees

Yemen’s Children Are Being Shelled While the World Sits Back

contributors

Both Houthis and Saudi Coalition continue to disregard civilian life

Displaced and Refugees

How did the Persecution of Burma’s Rohingya Arise?

contributors

British Colonialism, Burmese Hyper-Natonalism, both played a role

Authoritarianism

Muslim Rohingya Refugees from Burma: “The Army… burned down my house.”

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – “The army came and burned down my house. I was inside the house at that time,” one survivor said. Rohingya refugees arriving at treatment centers in Bangladesh covered in burns have told of an increased wave of violence against Muslims by the government’s military offensive. “The army came and they burned […]

Buddhism

Can Turkey’s Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?

Juan Cole

Turkey’s President has ambitions to lead the Muslim world