The Rohingya and the Myanmar Government

Four minutes is not long enough to illustrate the suffering that I saw in Bangladesh only three w...

Four minutes is certainly not enough. I congratulate my hon. Friend and her colleagues who went o...

I thank my right hon. Friend for what she has said, but we cannot possibly say enough. The hon. M...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. She has talked of a tide of misery. Alas, the tide of...

Order. I know that the former Minister has a lot to add to this, but I want to get everyone in. I...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Time is very short, and I wish to keep within my limit so that othe...

As we have heard today, the evidence about what has been happening in Myanmar is clear: there is ...

It is a pleasure to follow three very passionate speeches. People feel very strongly about this, ...

Let us be absolutely clear: the Rohingya have been persecuted and mistreated in that region for h...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has indeed described the situation as a

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We must not shy away from calling the situation what it is, p...

It is hard to put 600,000 people fleeing persecution into context until one has been to the camps...

As Bangladesh is a fellow Commonwealth country, does my hon. Friend agree that we should have som...

My right hon. Friend makes a good suggestion that I hope the Minister takes on.

Bangladesh ...

My hon. Friend’s personal visit cannot be repeated by all of us who have read about the situation...

There are many ways in which we can help, and I look to the Minister, and to DFID Ministers, to a...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Colchester (Will Quince) and to concur with everything...

It is important to note the history behind this issue. As we heard earlier from the hon. Member f...

My hon. Friend is making an extraordinarily powerful point. We should all be familiar with the po...

Members in the Chamber and people throughout the country are rightly passionate about the atrocit...

Does my hon. Friend agree that we were given her words absolutely verbatim? They were translated ...

Absolutely. We picked all of the dozen or so people to whom we spoke over two days and we had our...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) and the hon....

Does the hon. Lady agree that landmines are terrible not just for those in the present, but in 10...

That is the perversity of the situation, and we have our eyes wide open.

The Secretary of S...

It goes without saying that genocide is a legal term at the UN. If the UN goes down that path, of...

I am hugely grateful for that intervention.

Yesterday, the Foreign Secretary had the opport...

In an article in The Wall Street Journal in November 2016, Ben Rogers—the vice-chair of the Conse...

I take my hon. Friend’s point about Aung San Suu Kyi, but it is not simply that Aung San Suu Kyi ...

It should be remembered that, yes, she could have done more to prevent this tragedy and to speak ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, while it is absolutely right that we should suspend our military ...

I will come in a moment to the further action I want to challenge the Minister to take with regar...

I returned from Bangladesh just last week, and I felt moved to speak today. The Rohingya have bee...

I thank the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) for securing this important deb...

Does my hon. Friend agree that if they feel they have nothing to hide, they should let the world ...

Absolutely.

One slightly positive point was the establishment of the commission chaired by ...

The Rohingya are the most persecuted minority in the world, and their persecution is not a recent...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not, because of the shortness of time; I apologise.

I agree that we should keep a la...

In effect, there is no debate in this place this afternoon, because we are all of the same voice ...

The right hon. Lady mentioned refugee camps in different parts of the world. What is happening to...

I agree with everything that the hon. Lady said. I am absolutely sure that all those things will ...

May I begin by conveying to the House the extensive number of responses that I have received from...

Some years ago, I secured a Westminster Hall debate in which I said to the Government that althou...

This is a very serious issue. It is fair to say that the latest element of the crisis, triggered ...

But there has been systematic abuse of the Rohingya people for years. The fact is that Government...

Does my hon. Friend agree that because actions speak louder than words, we need to do more now? T...

I agree entirely, which was why I said at the start of my speech something that I think no one el...

The hon. Lady talks about doing more but says she is not asking for military intervention. What w...

Years ago, when I raised this matter in Westminster Hall, I said that the sanctions should be mai...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) and the hon. M...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) for securing...

Does the hon. Lady agree that access to Myanmar is crucial, and we must ensure that the United Na...

Absolutely, and I am grateful to the hon. Lady for making that point.

My constituents and I...

I join others in paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) on securing th...

I would like to begin by congratulating my honourable colleagues for securing this important deba...

Before the recess, I handed in a petition on the behalf of my constituents, and I have received s...

I totally agree that the media have a great responsibility to raise awareness of the issue.