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The National
April 18, 2018
Mr Johnson noted that the conditions in Rakhine, the province of Myanmar where the refugees had been driven from by security forces, were still “not conducive to safe returns. The authorities need to demonstrate that they are serious about the safety and security of the Rohingya. A credible independentÃâà...
UN Dispatch
April 18, 2018
For generations, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state have struggled for citizenship and rights. But the Buddhist-majority population and government do not recognize Rohingya as an ethnic minority. Instead, they are called “Bengalis” and considered illegal migrants from neighboringÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
April 18, 2018
LONDON: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday more international pressure was needed on Myanmar to take back Muslim Rohingya refugees. "The international community needs to put more pressure on Myanmar so that they take back their own people and ensure their security,"Ãâà...
10News
April 16, 2018
Since August, more than half a million Rohingya have fled their homes in Myanmar following waves of persecution and violence. On Saturday, the first Rohingya family was repatriated to Myanmar. The Rohingya people are a minority ethnic group in Myanmar. They're not officially considered citizens of anyÃâà...
Firstpost
April 14, 2018
An advance copy of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' report to the Security Council, obtained today by The Associated Press, says international medical staff and others in Bangladesh have documented that many of the almost 7,00,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar "bear the physical andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 13, 2018
As Abdullah explains the curriculum to me, he is joined by Janatullah, also 18 and a Rohingya refugee. Janatullah appears restless and angry - he was unable to attend his matriculation exam because of the violence that broke out in Myanmar's Rakhine state in August 2017. "I would have appeared for theÃâà...
CNN
April 12, 2018
I found out then I was not eligible for any government job or service in Myanmar. In 2011, I joined a distance education program at Sittwe University and specialized in English, but in 2012 anti-Muslim riots spread across Rakhine State. Tens of thousands of Rohingya were displaced and many died, but toÃâà...
Eyewitness News
April 11, 2018
YANGON – Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to “10 years in prison with hard labor in a remote area” for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in a village in northwestern Rakhine state last September, the army said on Tuesday. The military said in a statement published onÃâà...
The Straits Times
April 4, 2018
Mrauk U, Myanmar (AFP) - By the twisted standards of Myanmar's Rakhine state, Abdullah is one of its more fortunate Rohingya residents. The 34-year-old is alive, his village is intact and he is able to make a living - albeit a meagre one - in his homeland as a farmer. Abdullah's Rohingya Muslim minorityÃâà...
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
Hate speech exploded on Facebook at the start of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar last year, analysis has revealed, with experts blaming the social ... to a visit by the UN security council after months of resistance, but it remains unclear whether ambassadors will be allowed to go to Rakhine state, the body'sÃâà...
BBC News
March 29, 2018
But behind their makeshift homes, there's a razor-sharp fence, and behind that, watchful members of the Myanmar Border Police. Dil Mohammed looks through that fence every day hoping that soon he will be allowed to go back to his village on the other side of the barrier in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
The Quint
March 27, 2018
We believe India would continue its support in the coming days as well to maintain the momentum of the international pressure for securing the rights of these displaced people in Myanmar," he said while giving a talk on "Current trends of the Indo-Bangladesh relationship" at the Mumbai Press Club.
Financial Express
March 27, 2018
Following intense engagement and continuous global pressures, Myanmar last week entered an agreement with Bangladesh to repatriate, in phases, the Rohingyas who took refuge there, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali said on Tuesday. “We need to sustain the ongoingÃâà...
Voice of America
March 27, 2018
They don't want non-citizens to come back to this country,” he said, expressing a view shared by much of Myanmar's population that the Rohingya are not one of Myanmar's “official races.” Unrest affects the economy. At the market in downtown Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital, vegetable seller Daw HlaÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 24, 2018
The government's disenfranchising of those whom Assam now says are foreigners could trigger a crisis like that facing the Rohingya in Myanmar. That crisis erupted after Rakhine state disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of Muslims through a new citizenship law that took effect in 1982.
East Asia Forum
March 24, 2018
Violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar's north-western Rakhine state has generated a massive influx of refugees to Bangladesh that will test bilateral relations. Between August and November 2017, the Myanmar military's 'clearance operations' forced more than 622,000 Rohingya to cross the borderÃâà...
The Guardian
March 15, 2018
This move towards repatriation will barely make a dent in the 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees currently living in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a violent and targeted campaign by the Burmese military in Rakhine state which began in August 2017 and destroyed their homes and left thousands dead.
The Mercury
March 14, 2018
Myanmar's army has been accused of murder, raping women and girls and burning Rohingya villages during the military operation in August 2017, which has led over 680,000 people to flee. The exodus of Rohingyas from Rakhine comes after at least 70,000 Rohingyas fled the same area amid allegedÃâà...
Amnesty International
March 14, 2018
This week, Amnesty International revealed how Myanmar is militarizing northern Rakhine State – until recently home to the majority of Rohingya – by building bases for security forces on torched Rohingya villages. The summit is taking place just weeks after media reports exposed that Australia is planningÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 13, 2018
Myanmar is building military bases over flattened Rohingya villages, an international rights group said. Security forces have bulldozed houses and started constructing at least three new security facilities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, said Amnesty International's Remaking Rakhine State report,Ãâà...
The Times
March 13, 2018
“Everything is done through Facebook in Myanmar,” Ms Lee said in Geneva yesterday, using the alternative name for Burma. “It was used to convey public messages but we know that the ultra-nationalist Buddhists … are really inciting a lot of violence and a lot of hatred against the Rohingya or other ethnicÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2018
"The scorched-earth campaign carried out by the Myanmar security forces since August 2017 against the Rohingya population was predictable and preventable," Dieng said in a ... About 700,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh, but several hundred thousand remain in northern Rakhine state.
The Guardian
March 12, 2018
More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into Bangladesh since insurgent attacks sparked a security crackdown last August. Many have provided harrowing testimonies of murders and rapes by Myanmar security forces. The UN human rights chief said last week he stronglyÃâà...
NorthEast Today
March 11, 2018
Rohingya crisis in Myanmar (formerly Burma) contains a long historical tail. According to a group of historians, the Rohingya, a group of people of South Asian origin, resided in an independent kingdom in Arakan, now known as Rakhine state, in western Myanmar (the then Burma) since the8th century.
The Hill
March 11, 2018
This week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum made the painful decision to rescind its 2012 Elie Wiesel Award. It was awarded to Myanmar's civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for her commitment to our vision of a world where citizens and leaders confront hate, prevent genocide andÃâà...
The Guardian
March 11, 2018
About 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar and crossed the border into Bangladesh since 25 August last year when renewed violence broke out in northern Rakhine state. They joined more than 300,000 Rohingya already in the country. Mohammed and Biplop, who were among the new arrivals, are nowÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 11, 2018
The Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority who have been targeted by pogroms in Myanmar, are suffering through another lethal strategy: the denial of healthcare, food and ... And one of the problems is that the old political split in Burma was between the military and democracy – that has changed. So nowÃâà...
The Guardian
March 8, 2018
More than 700,000 Rohingya live in camps on the Bangladesh border of Myanmar after fleeing a campaign of violence by the military across Rahkine state. Many of their homes ... “The first reason is that Burma will only take a few and secondly is that the refugees will never return if they fear persecution.”.
HuffPost
March 7, 2018
His comments come as Myanmar's military published a lengthy response to widespread allegations over its campaign in Rakhine and said its ... Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine into Bangladesh since insurgent attacks sparked a security crackdown in August, joining 200,000 refugees from aÃâà...
Daily Signal
March 2, 2018
A burned out village in northern Rakhine, an area of Myanmar populated by the Rohingya minority group. ... Burma's national security adviser, U Thaung Tun, dismissed reports of the Rohingya crisis as “merely subjective and emotionally charged accounts of the media,” and emphatically denied any form ofÃâà...
BBC News
March 2, 2018
On Thursday, a large number of Myanmar soldiers appeared at the border fence. Bangladesh has summoned the Myanmar ambassador over the situation. Rohingya refugees fled their homes in Rakhine late last year, amid what the Myanmar government said was a military crackdown on militant groups.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 1, 2018
In January the same committee produced a damning report on the treatment of the Rohingyas, highlighting evidence of sexual violence during the military ... MPs had been due to visit health and education projects in Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority, and in the Magway region of central Burma.
Channel NewsAsia
February 28, 2018
In it, they urge the Rohingya to leave, saying the land they are on is under their jurisdiction and threatening them with prosecution if they remain. Last week Bangladesh and Myanmar officials visited the camp and urged the refugees to return to Rakhine. But community leaders have said they won't go backÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
February 27, 2018
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since last August following a military crackdown in Rakhine state that has been likened to ethnic cleansing by the US and the UN, but which has been applauded by Myanmar nationalists online. A Facebook spokesperson told AFP late Monday (Feb 26)Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 25, 2018
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are living day-to-day, six months on since the start of a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military. The United Nations has condemned the atrocities, calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have crossed the border into Bangladesh sinceÃâà...
CNN
February 21, 2018
Kalam, the Bangladeshi commissioner, said the people trapped in no man's land would be moved as part of a United Nations-supported repatriation effort to return the Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar, though no timeline was given. The UN estimates there are roughly 5,300 people stranded betweenÃâà...
New York Times
February 15, 2018
In less than half a year, around 700,000 Rohingya escaped attacks in their home state, Rakhine, and what the international community has called ethnic cleansing by Myanmar's security forces. The Myanmar government insists it is committed to the repatriation of those Rohingya who can prove theyÃâà...
TIME
February 12, 2018
For the 41-year-old Rohingya man, it was a surreal moment. He was born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city and far from the western state of Rakhine, where bloody military operations that followed Rohingya militant attacks in August have driven nearly 700,000 Rohingya into refugee camps inÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
December 31, 1999
Myanmar has repeatedly denied reports implicating soldiers in widespread abuses of Rohingya civilians, particularly in Maungdaw, a border district in western Rakhine State. Although the Myanmar government had allowed some groups to access the district, it was “in a short-term and unpredictableÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Myanmar's government is being accused of deliberately destroying evidence of possible "crimes against humanity" against the Rohingya minority. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, says the Rohingya are being starved to death after a violent military crackdown, massÃâà...
UNHCR
December 31, 1999
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about the safety of a group of vulnerable Rohingya women, men and children from Myanmar, who have been ... Nearly 700,000 refugees have now sought refuge in the country since violence broke out in the northern part of Myanmar's Rakhine State in lateÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Aung Zaw Win is one of the most prominent Rohingya businessmen in Myanmar, with a vast property empire which includes hotels in Yangon and and Naypyidaw, as well as numerous construction companies. He was also MP for Maungdaw in Rahkine until 2015. Mark Farmaner, director of BurmaÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to erase dozens of villages in Rakhine state in a vast operation that rights groups say is destroying evidence of mass atrocities against the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. Satellite images released by Colorado-based DigitalGlobe on Friday show the emptyÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are living day-to-day, six months on since the start of a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military. The United Nations has condemned the atrocities, calling them a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have crossed the border into Bangladesh sinceÃâà...
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