Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from April 13, 2012

Rohingya, Myanmar’s Stateless Muslims, Seek Deliverance

By  PALASH R. GHOSH : Not everyone is happy with impending moves by western powers to ease sanctions against the government of Myanmar, also known as Burma. An official  representative of the country's Rohingya minority  – an ethnic Muslim group that has long suffered in Buddhist-dominated Burma and who have long complained of persecution and abuse by its repressive military – has asked the United States to base a relaxation of sanctions on perceived improvements on  human rights  issues.