Tag: Burma

What can be done to save the Rohingya?

Post author By Alex Leader
Post date August 1, 2016

Leaders of ASEAN at the 2015 summit in Kuala Lumpur

During the 2015 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit in Kuala Lumpur, the regional bloc briefly and fruitlessly deliberated on the plight of the persecuted Rohingya ethnic group within Burma. The Burmese delegation refused to participate and absolved themselves of responsibility in the matter, declaring the Rohingya were no more than migrant Bangladeshis and […]

Tags ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Rohingya, Thailand, UN

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A Possibility of Extermination

Post author By Alex Leader
Post date June 28, 2016

Photo Credit: UN Women

This past week, Aung San Suu Kyi, an enduring symbol of the struggle for democracy in Burma and now State Counsellor of Myanmar, made an official visit to Thailand, where she was greeted by thousands of her compatriots living and working in Bangkok. Many of them belong to the Rohingya ethnic group, whom The Economist […]

Tags Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, GENOCIDE, Myanmar, refugee, Rohingya