Burmese Refugees Set Adrift, Hundreds Feared Dead in Thailand

 Burmese Refugees Set Adrift,
Hundreds Feared Dead in Thailand
BANGKOK, Jan 20 (IPS) – Hundreds of Rohingya (Burmese Muslim) refugees are feared dead after being pushed back into the sea by Thai authorities, according to human rights activists based in Thailand.
Up to 200 people are missing, while more than 300 others are believed to have died [...]

MP: Don’t brush aside ‘refugees for sale’ claim

MP: Don’t brush aside ‘refugees for sale’ claim
An opposition parliamentarian today urged the government not to brush aside human trafficking claims now that the US Senate is probing a ‘refugees for sale’ scam in which Malaysian immigration officials have been implicated.

Previously, said Santiago, Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar had responded in ‘typical fashion’ in Parliament [...]

The Freedom Challenge

Monday, November 24, 2008
In Burma, a test of Barack Obama’s attitude toward promoting democracy
BARBARITY IN Burma last week served as a reminder that, with or without President-elect Barack Obama, the global struggle for liberty will rage on long after George W. Bush takes his “freedom agenda” home to Texas.

Some of Mr. Obama’s foreign policy advisers [...]

Minister rejects human trafficking claims

Minister rejects human trafficking claims
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar today acknowledged that many Burmese nationals have entered this country via the Malaysia-Thai border but denied that there is human trafficking.
Certain quarters had alleged that human trafficking activities involving Burmese nationals were going on in this country ‘although they could not prove’ that they existed, he [...]

Racially bias UNHCR in Malaysia favoured the Christian Chins and discriminated against the Burmese Muslims and Rohingyas

Racially bias UNHCR in Malaysia
favoured the Christian Chins and
discriminated against the Burmese Muslims and Rohingyas
A Burmese refugee who served as an interpreter with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kuala Lumpur accused his former colleagues of discrimination. 
 

Mohd Sadek Ali Hussin, who volunteered with the agency for four months until [...]

Myanmar Refugees for sale, at Malaysia-Thai border

Myanmar Refugees for sale,
at Malaysia-Thai border 
Burmese refugees in Malaysia want the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to protect them more effectively against exploitation.
(NOTE: Because authorities are in a denial mode like the Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in the recent case of atrocities of Thai Navy abandoning more than 1,000 Rohingya boat people in international waters [...]

Mizzima:Christians in Rangoon avoid churches

by Mungpi   
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Christians in Rangoon said they are being forced to avoid their churches and conduct services in make-shift places of worship at the homes of their members in rotation after authorities earlier this month made them sign pledges not to worship in their apartment churches.
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Excerpts/notes of Obama’s inaugural speech

Excerpts/notes of Obama’s
inaugural speech
The following is the excerpts of Barack Obama’s sober but uplifting speech after taking a oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today-

humbled by the task before us,
grateful for the trust you have bestowed,
mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. 

Forty-four Americans have now taken the [...]

The plight of the Myanmarese

By:Rizal Sukma /from:thejakatapost
After Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last year, very few in the region took notice of the continuing plight and suffering of the Myanmarese. It was overshadowed by other events in the region and in other parts of the world.

Rohingya lives, welfare and sufferings are no concern at all for “Islamic” nations: Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia etc

Rohingya lives, welfare and sufferings are no concern at all for “Islamic” nations: Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia etc
 

Myanmar boat people in Sabang’ Indonesia

Myanmar boat people in Sabang’ Indonesia
Imam Husein, 30, sobbed while a nurse at Sabang Hospital attended to him in a ward. Tears rolled down his face and drenched the shirt he had received from the local community moments after he landed at Sabang Naval Base on Jan. 7. Imam was one of 193 Myanmar refugees [...]

UN request to see boatpeople comes too late

UN request to see boatpeople comes too late
South China Morning Post (SEHK: 0583, announcements, news) reporter Greg Torode yesterday visited the secret refugee camp on the Thai island of Koh Sai Daeng – only to discover that it had been recently deserted….
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Thai PM, a stooge of the Thai military is defending the criminals

Thai army Colonel Manat Khongpan (L, with cap) during the processing of a group of refugees

 
 
 
Thai PM, a stooge of the Thai military is defending the criminals
We all know that the Thai PM is just a stooge of the Thai military. He became PM because of the military manipulated and supported illegal undemocratic means. So [...]

US leaders started from Bush, must be held accountable for war crime together with Israel for the illegal use of Phosphorus and uranium ammunition in Gaza

US leaders started from Bush, must be held accountable for war crime
together with Israel for the illegal use of Phosphorus and  uranium ammunition in Gaza 
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday it would look into a claim by Vienna-based Arab ambassadors that Israel may have used ammunition containing depleted uranium in Gaza attacks.