• The Rohingya: Southeast Asia’s Palestinians

    Posted on September 12, 2017

    The Rohingya and the Palestinian people have much in common: They have been persecuted, repeatedly displaced, denied citizenship and are now subjected to genocide, writes Nada Elia, a Diaspora Palestinian scholar, writer, public speaker and BDS organizer.  Also see ‘USACBI condemns unequivocally the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya’. ____________ As they approach genocidal dimensions, […]

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    USACBI condemns unequivocally the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya

    Posted on September 10, 2017

    USACBI condemns unequivocally the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in majority-Buddhist Myanmar. The numbers of Rohingya who have been forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh now approaches 300,000.  We condemn in particular the Burmese military”s involvement in the planning and execution of this campaign, which now amounts to deliberate […]

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