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Richard Sollom on
July 2, 2010
Fourteen-year-old Kyan Khen* unwittingly triggered a landmine that took his left leg, and severely injured his right, while tending to his four buffalo in a rice field just across the Burmese border in Karen state in October 2009. His family fled to Thailand several years earlier, but young Kyan Khen regularly made the journey back [...]
Posted in Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Take Action
| Tagged amputee, Burma, Cynthia Muang, ICBL, international campaign to ban landmines, landmines, Mae Sot, Mae Tao Clinic, Myanmar, nobel peace prize, Ottawa Treaty, phantom limb pain, prostheses, Richard Sollom, Thai-Burma border, united states
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Richard Sollom on
April 12, 2010
Government officials in Bangladesh are preventing humanitarian access to tens of thousands of starving Burmese refugees living in its southeastern corner, across the river from Burma.
When my colleague, Dr. Parveen Parmar, and I conducted a rapid health survey in the squalid camps in February, we observed that nearly one child in five was acutely malnourished, [...]
Posted in Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, News Coverage, Women
| Tagged Arakan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cox's Bazar, global post, Kutupalong, malnutrition, Myanmar, Parveen Parmar, refugee, Richard Sollom, Rohingya, stateless and starving, unhcr
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By
Richard Sollom on
March 14, 2010
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We are persecuted by the Burmese government, so we came here for peace, but now we are persecuted by the Bangladeshi government.
A 25-year-old female refugee from Arakan State, Burma, said this to me while I was investigating conditions at Kutupalong unofficial camp, Bangladesh three weeks ago.
Listen to the SBS radio podcast in which I [...]
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| Tagged Arakan state, Bangladesh, Burma, GAM, Kutupalong, malnutrition, MUAC, Muslim minority, Myanmar, PHR, Richard Sollom, Rohingya, SBS radio, starving, stateless
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Richard Sollom on
March 9, 2010
Physicians for Human Rights has found that in recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion and forced internment against Burmese refugees. Critical levels of acute malnutrition and a surging camp population without access to food aid will cause more deaths from starvation and disease if the humanitarian crisis [...]
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| Tagged afp, ap, associated press, Bangladeshi government, BBC, boston globe, Burma, Burmese refugees, human rights, Kutupalong, msf, Myanmar, new york times, Parveen Parmar, refoulement, Richard Sollom, Rohingya, unhcr
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Ben Greenberg on
September 16, 2009
Waiting for me in my inbox on Monday morning were two press releases. One from the US State Department. The other from two prominent dissident groups in Burma: the 88 Generation Students and the All Burma Federation of Student Unions. The juxtaposition of these two emails side-by-side struck me.
On occasion of the US government assuming [...]
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Richard Sollom on
September 11, 2009
Remember the calamitous end to Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war back in May? Some 16,700 non-combatants were wounded and several thousand more were killed during the final onslaught. Fighting between the 150,000-strong Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the 7,000-strong Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) armed forces resulted in 300,000 displaced minority Tamils.
Although both sides [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Torture, Video
| Tagged bilateral agreement, Burma, child soldiers, china, Chris Beyrer, commission of inquiry, EJE, execution, Kokang, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapaksa, murder, Myanmar, POW, rape, Richard Sollom, sla, slavery, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Army, Tamil Tigers, Tamils, Than Shwe, Torture, United Nations Security Council, washington post, Yunnan Province
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