Mizzima News: Refugees flee fighting in Shan State
On April 8, The Shan Herald News Agency reported that Shan rebels had clashed with Myanmar forces in Tangyan township in northern Shan State causing thousands of local people to flee their homes. A...
View ArticleReuters: Rohingya rapes caused Myanmar refugee fight-Indonesia police
The rape and sexual harassment of three stateless Rohingya Muslim women caused last week’s deadly brawl between Burmese and Rohingya refugees at an immigration centre on Sumatra, an Indonesian police...
View ArticleBangkok Post: Myanmar team to vet Rohingya
Myanmar will send officials to Thailand to help investigate whether about 2,000 Rohingya migrants now being sheltered in Thailand are from Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state. Surapong Tovichakchaikul,...
View ArticleKIC: Refugee camps on high fire alert
Following the recent fire that killed 39 refugees and destroyed the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp, people living in camps along the Thai Burma border are scared that their respective camps are firetraps....
View ArticleGlobal Post: Cause of Thai refugee camp fire that killed 38 Burma refugees...
Thai border forces are still investigating the cause of a March 22 fire that killed 38 people and displaced over 2,000 more in the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp. According to local police under the...
View ArticleJakarta Post: Mauk Police net 16 migrants from Myanmar
The police of Mauk district, Tangerang regency, detained on Monday 16 migrants from Myanmar who were hiding on an offshore floating fish trap. Chief Insp. Suhendar said that local fishermen files a...
View ArticleMizzima News: Shan refugees remain wary of returning home
About 30 Shan people who had fled their homes in March due to fighting near Tangyan Township returned to their villages on Thursday, rescue committee members said. However, some 400 displaced Shan...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: Meikhtila locals remain in shelters amid security...
Residents who were forced to flee from their homes during anti-Muslim rioting last month in Mandalay division’s Meikhtila are disappointed that they are still unable to return home due to ‘security...
View ArticleIRIN: Rakhine IDPs in Myanmar brace for monsoon rains
More than 125,000 displaced Rohingya in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State are bracing for this year’s punishing monsoon rains. “There’s no real shelter here. People are getting diseases and the rainy...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: More than 1,000 civilians flee amid Shan State fighting
More than 1,000 villagers have fled their homes in eastern Burma’s Shan State since fighting escalated late last month between the government army and an ethnic armed group, Shan activists say. In...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Number of displaced in Burma rises to 450,000: Report
Internal conflict and communal violence displaced a further 166,000 people in Burma in 2012, bringing the total number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country to “at least 450,000...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: Displaced Muslims near Rangoon in urgent need of aid
Hundreds of Muslim villagers left homeless after the latest wave of sectarian riots to hit central Burma this week are in urgent need of food and shelter, according to local sources. A member of the...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Burmese refugees flock to Iowa meatpacking town
The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress. The school had long been accustomed to...
View ArticleMizzima News: Rakhine IDP camps still lack basic supplies
Relief camps in Kyaukphyu are still dealing with insufficient water and food supplies, according to camp committee representatives. Behan “Each person gets just one tin of rice per day,” camp committee...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: In Lashio, displaced families return home
Lashio, Shan State—Nearly 1,400 people who were displaced in anti-Muslim riots in the east Burma town of Lashio have returned to their homes, local authorities say. The displaced people from more than...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: Australia to deport over 100 Rohingya asylum-seekers
Australia is set to deport over 100 Rohingya asylum-seekers to detention centres in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru in the coming weeks, in spite of accusations that the move would breach...
View ArticleKaladan Press: Three foreigners arrested in the refugee camp
Three foreign visitors were recently arrested by police while visiting the Kutubalong unregistered Rohingya refugee camp, a resident that didn’t want their name used told the Kaladanpress. The resident...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: NGO to cut rations for ‘self-reliant refugees’ on Thai-Burma...
Rice rations for many of the more than 120,000 Burmese refugees living on the Thai-Burma border will be reduced, due to a reduction in funding for a humanitarian organization that has provided food for...
View ArticleMizzima News: Refugees flee troops as ceasefire talks continue
Local residents of Bamao District in Kachin State have reported that arecent increase in the presence of government troops has compelled war refugees to flee the area. Meanwhile, armistice talks...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Burma refugees among top five globally for US resettlement
Burmese refugees are among the top five nationalities to be resettled to the United States in 2013, along with Iraqis, Bhutanese, Somalis and Cubans, according to a US announcement on Tuesday. The US...
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