Burma: International support needed to protect Rohingyas from persecution
Statement, 14 June 2012 Odhikar is deeply alarmed by rapidly deteriorating sectarian violence in the Rakhine State of western Burma since June 3, 2012. So far the facts and evidence received by Odhikar depicts a grim scenario in which the minority Rohingyas are particularly persecuted and forced to leave their homeland. They are being killed, wounded and their villages burnt and when they try to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh they are pushed back to Burma. We appeal to the Government…
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