A leaked email obtained by the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) has revealed that United Nations boats have been used to transport Burmese military junta officials to Bangladesh, with U.N. markings removed from the boats beforehand. The leaked email, which was seen by The Epoch Times, was sent by U.N. resident coordinator in Burma (also known…

PIDIE, Indonesia—The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) urged countries on Tuesday to help Rohingya Muslims stranded at sea as at least 20 reportedly died and hundreds more landed in Indonesia after weeks adrift in the Indian Ocean. Nearly 500 Rohingya have reached Indonesia in the past six weeks while “many others did not act despite…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday rejected all of Burma’s preliminary objections to a case alleging that the military-ruled nation committed genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority. The Gambia filed the case in November 2019, alleging that Burma, also known as Myanmar, committed genocidal acts against the minority to “destroy the Rohingya group…

More than 500 Rohingya migrants from Burma fled Malaysia’s immigration detention center on April 20, with six of them being killed on a highway while fleeing, a Malaysian official said. Malaysia’s immigration chief Khairul Dzaimee Daud said that a total of 528 Rohingya escaped from the Sungai Bakap Temporary Immigration Depot in Penang after breaking…

News Analysis After five years of terror against the Rohingya in Burma (also known as Myanmar), the U.S. government finally designated it as a genocide. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the determination on March 21 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The genocide designation took so long because Washington did not want…

More than 5,000 people were displaced after a massive fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, police said, but the cause of the fire has not been determined. A spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, Kamran Hossain, said that the fire broke out at Camp 16 in Cox’s Bazar,…

More than 5,000 people were displaced after a massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Jan. 9, police said. The fire broke out at Camp 16 in Cox’s Bazar, where more than a million Rohingya refugees live, a spokesman for the Armed Police Battalion, Kamran Hossain, said. About 1,200 houses were…

The Indonesian government has allowed a stranded boat carrying 120 Rohingya refugees near Aceh province to dock, the authorities said on Wednesday, relenting under pressure from rights groups. The boat was first sighted in waters off the coast of Bireuen on Dec. 26. The boat was leaking and damaged, with dozens of Rohingya refugees onboard,…

BIREUEN, Indonesia—Indonesian authorities will help repair a stranded boat packed with over 100 Rohingya off its coast but will not allow its passengers to seek refuge in the Southeast Asian country and will turn the vessel away, officials told Reuters on Tuesday. Fishermen spotted the skiff on Sunday, adrift off the coast of Bireuen, a…

Rohingya refugees filed a $150 billion lawsuit against Facebook over its failure to curb misinformation and hate speech on its platform, which “amounted to a substantial cause, and eventual perpetuation of, the Rohingya genocide” in Burma, also known as Myanmar. Lawyers in the United Kingdom and the United States launched legal campaigns against Facebook’s parent…