Rohingya children playing at a UNICEF child-friendly area, financed by UK aid, inside Batukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo credit: Anna Dubuis /DFID

Understanding Separatisms Across the World: Kurdistan, Biafra, and Rohingya

LONDON (ViaNews) – November 2017. The Biafran separatist movement in Nigeria is blacklisted a “storm in a teacup” with just a “few noisy people involved”, by the Nigerian information minister, Lai Mohammed. Separatism, after all, is not limited to the European continent. Biafra, Rakhine, and Kurdistan: 3 separatist centers outside of Europe. The ethnic, linguistic,…

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Pope Francis. Photo by: Casa Rosada.

Rohingya Issue Dominated Pope’s Asia Visits, but There’s Significance Beyond Rohingya Angle

Dhaka, Bangladesh (ViaNews) – Pope Francis concluded his visit to Asia on Saturday as he headed to the Vatican with a flight from Biman, the flagship Bangladeshi airline. Though the desperate plight of the Rohingya refugees has dominated Pope’s landmark visits to both Bangladesh and Myanmar, the visits carry significance beyond the Rohingya angle. During…

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