Join us for an evening about Burma, with a film showing of The Lady , followed by a talk about Burma and Kaw Dai, a Youth Led Project. This is also a chance to support them through the purchase of their goods.
Places are limited, so to ensure a space email or call Global Indigo: connecting@globalindigo.org or 07879 999638.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has estimated 13,000 mostly Rohingya people have fled Burma's Rakhine State since an outbreak of violence in 2012, and close to 500 have died at sea when their boats broke down or capsized.
However Myanmar's Deputy Minister for Immigration and Population, Kyaw Kyaw Tun yesterday stated that the Rohingyan people are not included in Myanmar's more than 100 national races.
"There has never been a Rohingya race in Rakhine State. According to the censuses collected in the colonial period, in 1973 and in 1983, the country's ethnic groups...
