Brussels, 06/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 5 February, the European Parliament adopted a joint resolution deploring the “inhumane treatment” inflicted on Rohingya refugees, a mainly Muslim ethnic community from the west of Burma. About 1,000 Rohingya boat people are reported to have been intercepted in Thai territorial waters in December last and a large number are said to have perished. MEPs firmly condemn the “continuous persecution of the Rohingya people by the Burmese...