URGENT APPEAL FOR PROTECTION AND SAFETY IN RAKHINE STATE

Press Release URGENT APPEAL FOR PROTECTION AND SAFETY IN RAKHINE STATE We, the undersigned Rohingya organizations and communities worldwide are deeply concerned with the recent developments following clashes in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar on August 25, 2017. We appeal the international community to exercise “the Responsibility to Protect” as the Rohingya civilian population plunges into […]

Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi The Prime Minister of India South Block, Raisina Hill New Delhi – 110011 Subject: The Deportation of 40,000 Rohingya refugees from India We, the European Rohingya Council (ERC), are the “Voice of the Rohingya”, and are first and foremost grateful to you and the people of India, as you […]

ERC Rejects Myanmar’s Sham Commission Report on Human Rights Abuses against Rohingya

ERC REJECTS MYANMAR’S SHAM COMMISSION REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST ROHINGYA The European Rohingya Council (ERC) unequivocally rejects the findings of “Maungdaw Investigation Commission” on the well-documented human rights abuses committed during Myanmar’s armed forces “clearance operations” against Rohingya civilians in northern Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State. “There is no possibility of crimes against humanity, […]

ERC condemns Cardinal Charles Bo`s shameful comment – “There is no Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar”

With rape and institutionalised mass killings escalating at an alarming rate against the Myanmar´s ethnic group, Rohingya, Cardinal Charles Bo of Myanmar disgraces these Rohingya victims with his shocking and irresponsible expression that ‘ethnic cleansing is not taking place against Rohingya’. ERC reminds Cardinal Bo of what he said in the year 2016 in support […]