Of the estimated street children living in Bangladesh, 380,000 of those children are between the ages of 5 and 14. The streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka - is home to more than half of these kids. The RB team based in Bangladesh recently conducted interviews with the children in Kamlapur Station, Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar – they were asked about their life on the street. The interviews reveal the shocking and sad reality that these children live through.
The UN Fact Finding Mission published on Monday 27th August is damning towards the government of Burma, the Burmese military, the international community and surprising towards the UN itself. It acknowledges Burma’s inability to deal with the perpetrators of ‘genocidal intent’, the Burmese military (Tatmadaw), it acknowledges Burma’s cover-up Government and those...
When the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, this ensued conflict between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) to gain territorial control. The Srebrenica massacre was the second biggest account of mass murder in Europe since World War 2. In July 1995, despite being announced as a UN safe zone, Srebrenica was sieged by the Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Republike Srpska’s (the self-proclaimed Serbian republic in Bosnia) General Mladić.
August 25th will mark one year since the vitriolic military onslaught by the Burma military and forces on Rohingya villagers in Northern Arakan State (Rakhine) which led to unspeakable atrocities. The numbers involved in the violence are simply unbelievable. Conservative estimates of the 25,000 Rohingya killed, more than 20,000 Rohingya women raped, over 300 villages entirely burnt down and...
We must act now, together, in numbers, before India renders millions of people non-citizens creating yet another refugee crisis the subcontinent cannot handle.
Following tensions arising between the Sinhalese Buddhist and Muslim communities in Digana, Kandy district, the Sri Lankan government issued a 10-day nationwide state of emergency
In February our team from Restless Beings was in Cox’s Bazar, collecting data and distributing aid to the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh. I’ve been with the organization for almost a year and this was my first visit to the Rohingya in Bangladesh.
Wednesday 7th February, UK Parliament – Restless Beings have launched their research report at the UK Parliament titled ‘The Genocide of The Ignored Rohingya’. Detailing 96 testimonies , the report makes key recommendations to the UK and Bangladesh Governments as well as international aid agencies. The report calls on the British Government to press the United Nations Security Council to make a referral to the International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.
