Dozens of Rohingya camping outside UNHCR office in India detained

Aljazeera
Bilal Kuchay
11 Mar 2021

At least 88 Rohingya detained in New Delhi while camping outside the UN refugee body’s office in second such move in a week.

Rahima Kato, a Rohingya woman, displays identity cards of her family members issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu [File: Channi Anand/AP]

New Delhi, India – Dozens of Rohingya refugees have been detained while they were camping outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the Indian capital, New Delhi – the second such move in a week.

“A total of 88 people have been detained,” an officer at Vikaspuri police station in the capital’s southwest told Al Jazeera over telephone on Thursday.

Myanmar Is on Trial for Its Rohingya Campaign. Here’s Why

The Washington Post

By Philip J. Heijmans | Bloomberg 

Jan. 25, 2020 

Analysis

Since 2017, some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh. The mass exodus was provoked, in the words of United Nations investigators, by security forces practicing “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” with “genocidal intent.” Now two international tribunals are investigating Myanmar for atrocities committed against the Rohingya, who have lived uneasily among Myanmar’s Buddhist majority since the country’s independence from British rule seven decades ago.

Key Rohingya campaigners face abduction threats

AA
Sorwar Alam |
30.11.2019

Rohingya campaigners Nay San Lwin and Maung Zarni

Two leading figures of the Rohingya campaign in Europe are fearing for their lives after calls for their abduction were circulated in a racist video message.

London-based Maung Zarni and Germany-based Nay San Lwin said they were targeted by Aye Ne Win, a businessman who allegedly financed the genocide against the ethnic group in Myanmar.

In a video circulated on social media, Win urged Myanmar's intelligence service to launch an Israel-style operation to kidnap the two activists.

Key Rohingya campaigners face abduction threats

AA

Sorwar Alam

ANKARA

30.11.2019 

 
2 Myanmar Buddhist and leading Rohingya campaigners in Europe claim they face threats from Myanmar 

Two leading figures of the Rohingya campaign in Europe are fearing for their lives after calls for their abduction were circulated in a racist video message.

London-based Maung Zarni and Germany-based Nay San Lwin said they were targeted by Aye Ne Win, a businessman who allegedly financed the genocide against the ethnic group in Myanmar.

In a video circulated on social media, Win urged Myanmar's intelligence service to launch an Israel-style operation to kidnap the two activists.