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The terrifying voyage of Burma's boat people
Penang :: Malaysia | 6 days ago
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Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat...Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities...
Tags: Malaysian, Rohingyas, Mohammed, Salim, Bangladesh, Moniur, Burma, Thailand, Arakan, refugees camp, Malaysia, Penang
Twitter inspires street name in Palestinian refugee camp
Utrecht :: Netherlands | 2 months ago
Credibility A Dutch-Palestinian man, Arjanel El Fassed, has turned his Twitter account, @arjanelfassed, into the first Twitter-inspired street. The street, @arjanelfassed tweetstreet, is located in Askar, a Palestinian refugee camp. But don’t get too excited about...
Tags: refugees camp, palestinian refugees, street naming, twitter account, Palestinian Child Care Society, Netherlands, Utrecht
Airstrike kills over 80 Yemenis, group says
Beirut :: Lebanon | 2 months ago
Credibility Citing witness reports, Human Rights Watch said the attack took place on Wednesday in the northern Amran governorate when military aircraft bombed a group of displaced people in an open area near a school, killing at least 87 people. “The Yemeni government...
Tags: Yemen Said, Yemeni, refugees camp, air strike, Lebanon, Beirut
Violence taking heavy toll on Somalia
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 5 months ago
Credibility Spiralling violence in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is taking a heavy toll on civilians, with more than 250 killed and 160 000 forced to flee their homes over the past seven weeks, aid agencies said on Friday...The humanitarian agency said it had no...
Tags: Somalia, Somalis, U.S, Kenya, Mogadishu, refugees camp, somalis government, U.N., somalis force, refugees agency
Oregonian: Doctors group: Rape is common against Darfur women
Khartoum :: Sudan | 6 months ago
Credibility A survey of women who fled Sudan's Darfur conflict found that a third of them said they had been raped and revealed a widespread fear of ongoing sexual violence in their refugee camp in Chad, the U.S.-based group Physicians for Human Rights reported Sunday.
Tags: North Darfur, refugees camp, sexual violence, Chad
Emergency Food Aid For Thailand Refugees
Bangkok :: Thailand | 6 months ago
Credibility Lao and Hmong American non-profit organizations are urging President Obama and the U.S. We want to give national and international voice to the suffering and voiceless Laotian and Hmong refugees being abused in Thailand and Laos and soon to be without...
Tags: refugees camp, Thailand, Laos, aid group
Scuffles at refugee camp
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
Credibility PESHAWAR: Refugees fleeing Pakistan's fight against the Taliban scuffled for relief supplies on Wednesday as the military said it had secured footholds in a northwestern valley overrun by the insurgents. The operations against Taliban militants in the...
Tags: Young Pakistanis, Mumbai, Taliban, Swat Valley, refugees camp, northwest pakistan, Islamabad, banned jihadi, mumbai attacks
Palestinians expel band conductor in Holocaust row
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 8 months ago
Credibility Palestinian security in the West Bank detained and then deported to Israel a youth orchestra director who angered local leaders by taking the group to perform before Holocaust survivors in Israel, officials said. Wafa Younis, head of the "Strings of...
Tags: Israeli-Arab, Wafa Younis, holocaust survivors, Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank, youth orchestra, refugees camp, Palestinian
Sudan government forces attack Darfur refugee camp
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sudanese soldiers stormed the Kalma camp and immediately opened fire on civilians, said Yahia Bolad, spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Darfur rebel group. He said by telephone from London that about 50 residents had been killed and 100 wounded.
Tags: sudan, Sudan Liberation Army, Kalma Camp, South Darfur State, refugees camp, Khartoum, ICC, displaced persons, darfur refugees
Bush to Slam Myanmar on Asia Trip
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Bush was to deliver a thumping broadside against Myanmar on Thursday and meet with Burmese dissidents who have heaped praise on his tough policy toward its military rulers. First lady Laura Bush was to add ammunition with a trip to see Myanmar refugees...
Tags: Mr. Bush, George W. Bush, China, Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Thailand, Visit Burmese Refugee Camp, president george, Asia, refugees camp
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