'A dream come true': Rohingya group buys community center on Milwaukee's south side

ISABEL KOYAMA , SARAH VOLPENHEIN 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A south side church is being converted into a community center for Rohingya refugees in Milwaukee, believed to be home to one of the largest populations of Rohingya in the U.S. after they fled decades of systemic repression in their native Myanmar.

On Friday, the nonprofit Burmese Rohingya Community of Wisconsin bought a church building in Clarke Square. Founder Anuwar Kasim hopes it will be a place for his people to gather, practice Islam and get help with everything from English language learning to housing and food.

"There is a lot of needs for my community," Kasim said. "This community center can assist them."

Home Ministry: Don’t make demands, Rohingya groups here illegal and can face action

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Thursday, 30 Apr 2020
BY IDA LIM

Rohingya refugees are seen at a Rohingya settlement in Bandar Baru Sentul, Kuala Lumpur April 24, 2020. — Picture Hari Anggara

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — Any organisations representing the Rohingya community in Malaysia are invalid by law and will face government action as the Registrar of Societies had never registered any such organisations, the Home Ministry insisted today.

It also reiterated that Malaysia does not recognise the community as refugees but merely “illegal immigrants”, even if they hold the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identification cards, and therefore have no rights to make demands to Putrajaya.

Rohingya group blasts panel report on violence against community

theSundaily
21 Jan 2020

Rohingya refugees gather near the fence in the “no man’s land” zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh border as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state during a government-organized visit for journalists on Aug 24, 2018 — AFP

 

KUALA LUMPUR: A UK-based Rohingya group Monday dismissed a report published by Myanmar’s Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) the same day which concluded that no evidence of genocide was found despite proof of war crimes committed by some members of Myanmar security forces.

Rohingya group thanks govt for assistance with refugee registration

THE Star ONLINE
Wednesday, 3 Jul 2019

PETALING JAYA: A Rohingya rights group has welcomed the government's plan to resolve the problem of registering Rohingya refugees by placing officers from the police and the Immigration Department in UNHCR's "Refugee Status Determination" process.

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (Merhrom) president Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani (pic) said they had long been receiving complaints from the Rohingya community that they could not register with the UNHCR despite a five-year wait.

Rohingya group backs ICC probe into Myanmar’s atrocity

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Zuhal Demirci | 

27.06.2019

ANKARA 

 

International court forms bench to look into request for probing Myanmar's deportation of Rohingya Muslims

A Rohingya group Thursday called for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against humanity after an ICC prosecutor announced her intent to submit a request to probe deportation of Rohingya Muslims.

The ICC said that it assigned a three-judge panel to hear prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s request to open an investigation into the Rohingyas' deportation from Myanmar.