Three human traffickers killed in Teknaf gunfight

Teknaf, Bangladesh: Three alleged human traffickers were killed in a gunfight with police in a shrimp enclosure under Teknaf police station on May 8, at about 3:30am, Ataur Rahman Khandakar, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station said.

Three human traffickers killed in Teknaf gunfight

UNHCR calls for joint response in wake of “Rohingya mass grave” in Thailand

The UN refugee agency is deeply concerned at this week's discovery of dozens of bodies in smugglers' camps in southern Thailand. The agency calls on countries in the region to strengthen cooperation on counter-smuggling and counter-trafficking measures while ensuring the protection of victims.

In recent days Thai authorities have announced that they found the remains of some 30 people believed to originate in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Investigations are ongoing, with initial police accounts citing illness and abuse as likely causes of death.

UNHCR calls for joint response in wake of “Rohingya mass grave” in Thailand

Canada’s religion envoy denounces persecution of Myanmar Muslims

OTTAWA - Canada's religious freedom ambassador denounced Wednesday the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar and urged Canadian businesses eager to find opportunities in that resource-rich country to respect human rights.

Ambassador Andrew Bennett said he also delivered his concerns about the well-document persecution of the Rohingya Muslim population directly to #Myanmar government officials, including the country's foreign affairs minister.

"Now really is the moment for a more inclusive process that brings all religious and ethnic communities together so that they can contribute to the country's development," Bennett, who was on a lengthy trip to the south Asian country, told The Canadian Press in an interview from Yangon.

Canada’s religion envoy denounces persecution of Myanmar Muslims

A massage for Rohingya leaders

Assalamualaikum

Dear Rohingya leaders,

In the time grievance, you (so-called proclaimed Rohingya leaders) from around the world should at least voice together for victims who have been sold to human traffickers for the failure of your leadership that is becoming more and more obvious as the suffering of our people, Rohingya amasses inside and outside of Arakan.

URGENT ACTION ROHINGYA COMMUNITY LEADERS IMPRISONED

Four Rohingya men have been imprisoned for their role in community protests in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2013. They are prisoners of conscience who must be immediately and unconditionally released.

On 3 March 2015, the Rakhine State Divisional Court sentenced Ba Thar, Kyaw Myint and his son Hla Myint to eight years’ imprisonment for “rioting” (Section 147 of the Penal Code), “causing voluntary grievous hurt to a public servant in the discharge of his duty” (Section 333), and “banditry” (Section 395). The court also sentenced Kyaw Khin to five years’ imprisonment under Sections 147 and 333 of the Penal Code. They are all serving their sentences in Sittwe prison, Rakhine State.

URGENT ACTION ROHINGYA COMMUNITY LEADERS IMPRISONED

Rohingya ‘Voting Right’ Campaign

Rohingya ‘Voting Right’ Campaign

Rohingya, one of the world most persecuted people in the world, are a native Muslim minority group from Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar) who have lived peacefully and enjoyed the rights of being the natives of Arakan.

They are not only forced towards statelessness in their own land, and also forced to be the major victims of persecution, prosecution, extermination and expulsion from their native land after Dictator Ne Win came to power in 1962.

Joint Statement: Stop State Terrorism in Arakan against Rohingya

Joint Statement: Stop State Terrorism in Arakan against Rohingya

Date: March 11, 2015

We, the undersigned organizations strongly condemn the brutal and inhuman behaviors of Burmese Government and its terrorist and ultra‐nationalist allied who are pushing the country into the worst by ignoring fundamental rights of indigenous Rohingya of Arakan State and assaulting the world concerns through perpetrated crimes against humanity and street protests against due rights, peace and stability.