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Media Release From Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For four and a half years, the United Nations Security Council, with the UK as penholder on Myanmar, has failed to uphold provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on Myanmar to prevent acts of genocide against the Rohingya. As a result of this failure, in …
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK is calling for an emergency humanitarian aid corridor from Bangladesh into areas of northern Rakhine State under the control of the Arakan Army. The population of Buthidaung town, which had grown significantly due to hosting Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDPs) caught up in the …
200,000 Newly Displaced Rohingya Need Urgent Humanitarian Aid Read More »
Rohingya organisations call for urgent international humanitarian assistance JOINT STATEMENT Out of 600,000 Rohingya left in Arakan or Rakhine State after the genocidal attacks of 2016-2017, we estimate that only one third remain in their original homes. Tens of thousands of Rohingya are internally displaced in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. Rohingya in Buthidaung downtown were …
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today sounded the alarm, warning that the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya is intensifying. BROUK urged the UN Security Council to immediately take steps to enforce the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures order on Myanmar to protect the ‘extremely vulnerable’ Rohingya. …
Genocide against Rohingya is intensifying, warns Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today condemned Burmese military airstrikes targeting vulnerable Rohingya civilians in Burma’s Rakhine State and called for the government of the United Kingdom (UK) to urgently convene a United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting on the escalating crisis. At least 38 Rohingya civilians …
Joint Statement by Rohingya Organisations Worldwide We, the undersigned worldwide Rohingya organisations, call on the UN Security Council not to repeat the same mistake in failing to act before the military offensives of 2016 and 2017 and convene an urgent meeting to discuss the escalating crisis in Rakhine State, Burma. The UN Security Council has …
UNSC Must Act on Increased Atrocities Against Rohingya – Don’t Repeat Past Mistakes Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK On the third anniversary of the attempted military coup in Burma, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) is reiterating its call for the international community to step up and do more for the victims of the Burmese military. “There should be nowhere for military chief Min Aung Hlaing …
Three years of ongoing genocide – no peace or security under Burmese military Read More »
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today petitioned a Court in Argentina to issue international arrest warrants for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and six other Myanmar officials responsible for the genocide against the Rohingya people. “This is a historic and unprecedented step towards accountability for the decades-long …
Media Release from the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK The Myanmar military junta is continuing to ignore the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) orders to protect the Rohingya as state policies are pushing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of bare survival in Rakhine State, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said today in …
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK BROUK welcomes UK intervention in Rohingya genocide case The British government has filed a joint declaration of intervention in the landmark case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where the Gambia is accusing Burma of committing genocide against Rohingya. The filing of the formal declaration comes just …
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