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Rohingya refugees in refugee camp in Bangladesh, 2017 (Photo: Zlatica Hoke/VOA) Nadine Osman The UN approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar on December 27. The resolution comes a month before the UN’s International Court of Justice ruled on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar. […]

29th Jun 2018

Historical account of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

The Rohingya Crisis, A People Facing Extinction. By Muhammad Abdul Bari. Kube Publishing 2018. Pb 74pp. £4.99 The book is a concise, well researched, easily readable and passioned book on the history and plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. The book argues that what is happening to the Rohingya Muslims is a genocide and […]

23rd Feb 2018

We massacred Rohingya Muslims at the behest of the army, say Buddhist villagers

In alphabetical order) Abdul Majid, 45, Abdul Malik, 30, Abul Hashim, 25, Abulu, 17, Dil Mohammed, 35, Habizu, 40, Nur Mohammed, 29, Rashid Ahmed, 18, Shaker Ahmed, 45 and Shoket Ullah, 35 lined up in a row, kneeling and bound, minutes later the were hacked by knives, beheaded and at shot (Photo: courtesy Reuters) The […]

24th Nov 2017

Rohingya Muslim survives after playing dead for days

Rohingya Musilm refugees fleeing Myanmar military attack in Rakhine state reach Bangladesh border of Palongkhali of Coxs Bazaar on October 17 (Photo: Stringer/AA) Büşra Nur Özcan, Fatih Erel and Kubra Chuhan The 25-year-old teacher hid among the bodies of his family members killed by Myanmar’s military and Buddhist mobs, last month.He is among the 617,500 […]

26th Oct 2017

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi should be stripped of honour

Sir, Aung San Suu Kyi must be stripped of the Nobel Prize and the Saharov human rights reward the European Parliament gave her. She doen’t have the honour and the humanitarian capacities for such à recognition. Why is the Nobel committee silent? Why only Dalaï Lama had spoken up among the Hobel Prize winners? What […]

29th Sep 2017

Peace laureate in denial over Rohingya Muslim genocide

Aung San Suu Kyi (Photo: Comune Parma/Flickr Creative Commons) The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually to individuals and institutions that “have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Throughout its 115 year history, […]

Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.