Rohingya Crisis

Responding to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

In 2017 the Myanmar (Burmese) government and military intensified their violent ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people. Fleeing the violence, over 700,000 Rohingya people have been forced out of their homes and villages. Clear View Project is active in responding to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India.

In March 2018, the International Interfaith Peace Corps organized a high-level delegation to the Rohingya refugee camps on the Bangladesh/Myanmar border. They invited Hozan Alan Senauke, Executive Director of the Clear View Project, as well as Richard Reoch, former president of Shambhala’s global community, to represent the Buddhist world. It was during this visit that the Clear View Project formed the Buddhist Humanitarian Project and its international appeal urging the global Buddhist community to support Rohingya refugees.

Buddhist Humanitarian Project

Our Buddhist Humanitarian Project is founded with the belief that is a moral responsibility for the global Buddhist community to condemn Myanmar’s violence against the Rohingya people. We believe that using Buddhist rhetoric to condone and encourage such violence is a profound distortion of the Buddha’s teachings.

We stand in solidarity with the Rohingya people, calling upon the Myanmar State Sangha -– and all those in power –- to work diligently towards healing, reconciliation, and repatriation for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people affected by Myanmar’s military and vigilante violence.

To learn more about Clear View Project’s work on the Rohingya crisis, visit the Buddhist Humanitarian Project website.