by Sacha Stein | Apr 2, 2014 | General News
March saw more flare-ups of violence and attacks directed toward the Rohingya. On March 10, 113 homes in Maungdaw Township were burned down, leaving over 300 people homeless. Though this has happened in the past, villagers reported that these fires were different....
by Sentinel Project | Feb 1, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
It is often noted by observers of the continued violence in Burma that the crippling poverty in the country’s western-most Rakhine State is part of the root cause of the anti-Rohingya campaign. Lack of hope, historical animosity, and other grim conditions in...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jan 1, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
In the month of December 2013, Reuters revealed shocking details about the system of human trafficking created to handle the expulsion of Rohingya and other Muslims from Burma, also known as Myanmar. The agency discovered that the Thailand government was selling...