By Ramzy Baroud 　　While Western corporations are lining up leach Burma's natural resources, the "promise" of democracy now at hand, no one is talking about the genocidal violence the country's Muslim Rohingyas are facing. 　　The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma (or Myanmar) have received only passing and dispassionate... More

　　Entering the Rohingya camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border is restricted. 　　Officially they don't even exist, but in reality authorities ‘tolerate’ their presence. Bangladeshi official say there are about 300,000 unregistered Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in dismal and squalid conditions with no electricity or drinking water and restricted from... More

　　Myanmar security forces have killed, raped or carried out mass arrests of Rohingya Muslims after deadly sectarian riots in the northeast in June, a rights group has said, adding the authorities had done little to prevent the initial unrest. 　　Aid workers were blocked and in some cases arrested in a... More

　　A recent journey to western Myanmar has revealed a provincial capital divided by hatred and thousands of its Muslim residents terrorized by what they say is a state-sponsored campaign to segregate the population along ethno-sectarian lines. 　　Decades-old tension between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in coastal Rakhine state exploded... More

　　Religious sites targeted before holiday, as congressman says 'radical' Muslims 'try to kill Americans every week'. 　　On Thursday, a Palestinian American was visiting his father's grave at Muslim cemetery in Evergreen Park, a suburb southwest of Chicago, when he noticed graffiti written on the tombstones. 　　Anti-Muslim graffiti were written on... More

　　In November 2007, Rohingya refugee Ali Ashraf paid dubious agents in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar town for a place in a big boat that was to take him to Malaysia via Thailand for a "good job" and a "secure future". 　　Three weeks later, after a perilous journey across the choppy waters... More

　　The Muslim Hui are an anomaly in China, an ethnic minority granted significant autonomy and allowed to devoutly follow their religion in a region where Islam thrives. 　　The ancient Silk Road trade route cut through what is today the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, luring Muslim traders from afar. Descendants of... More

　　When 27-year-old Najumul Haq took to sea for the first time, he left behind all that he had ever known. 　　Najumul is a Rohingya, born in Myanmar. For years, his family had run a sundry shop in the town of Maungdaw, on the country's western coast close to the border... More

　　Earlier this year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in western Myanmar. The authorities ‘charged’ three Muslim men. 　　A week later, 10 Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next was hidden from the outside world. 　　Bloodshed pitted Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their... More

　　Young men who have found refuge in Malaysia after fleeing violence in Myanmar are covertly getting brides from home. 　　Shamsul Alam, has dabbled as a tailor's assistant and construction worker since fleeing to Malaysia from his native Rakhine State in Myanmar. 　　He recalls bitterly his grueling 12-14 hour work days... More

　　Burmese security forces organized and stood guard over Buddhist attacks on Muslim settlements before burying scores of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, in mass graves, Human Rights Watch said in a report today. 　　Evidence of official involvement in the massacres that left hundreds dead was gathered... More

　　Rights groups say the Rohingya in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar face some of the worst discrimination in the world. 　　On a sweltering Sunday afternoon, Roma Hattu was rolling around on the bare concrete floor of the abandoned single-story building her family shares with three others behind Thetkepyin camp, breathing heavily and... More

　　The murder of a UK soldier has led to a spike in hate crimes targeting Muslims. 　　British Muslims fear they could become “sitting targets” for far-right violence following a spate of attacks on mosques and a spike in other reported hate incidents in the week since the murder of a... More