Tags - Myanmar
With Myanmar officials considering calling Rohingya “foreign citizen”, the persecuted people are demanding full citizenship, ethnic rights, and international protection before repatriation.
News ID: 446248 Publish Date : 2019/07/31
Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh have refused to return to Myanmar unless they are recognized as an ethnic group with full rights and safety in their home country, where they have faced several decades of persecution.
News ID: 446205 Publish Date : 2019/07/29
Education of over 60,000 Rohingya children and host community in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh is being disrupted as monsoon rains damaged learning centers.
News ID: 445945 Publish Date : 2019/07/10
Myanmar says it is sending a high-level delegation to overcrowded Rohingya camps in Bangladesh concerning the return of the refugees to their ethnic homeland of Rakhine state.
News ID: 445781 Publish Date : 2019/07/02
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stated on Sunday Myanmar is unwilling to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a persecution in the Buddhist-majority country in 2017.
News ID: 445353 Publish Date : 2019/06/11
Amnesty:
The same units of the Myanmar military that in 2017 were implicated in a brutal crackdown that drove hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim Rohingya from the country are again committing war crimes as they step up their campaign against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International announced.
News ID: 445157 Publish Date : 2019/05/30
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged Myanmar to take action to enable the refugees in Bangladesh as well as the displaced inside the country to return home safely.
News ID: 445078 Publish Date : 2019/05/27
"We need access, predictable, sustained access, to reach the people in need," a UN official has said regarding those displaced by conflict in Myanmar 's western state of Rakhine.
News ID: 444935 Publish Date : 2019/05/16
The United Nations (UN)’s fact-finding mission on Myanmar has called on all countries to cut financial and other ties with the country’s military over genocide targeting minority Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 444918 Publish Date : 2019/05/15
Myanmar security forces have shot dead at least six people and detained nearly 300 others in the troubled western state of Rakhine amid the ongoing fighting between the army and ethnic rebels.
News ID: 444650 Publish Date : 2019/05/03
The European Union (EU) has extended sanctions, including a weapons embargo, against Myanmar for one year over the Myanmar ese military’s deadly crackdown on minority Muslims in the country.
News ID: 444596 Publish Date : 2019/04/30
UN:
A United Nations (UN) human rights investigator stated that up to 10,000 civilians have been forced to flee their homes in Myanmar ’s Northwestern state of Rakhine since November last year as a result of continued violence and a lack of humanitarian aid due to government restrictions.
News ID: 443886 Publish Date : 2019/03/13
Amnesty:
Myanmar 's military is shelling villages and preventing civilians from getting food and humanitarian help, amid an intensifying crackdown on the rebel Arakan Army in the restive Northwestern state of Rakhine that has pushed thousands from their homes, Amnesty International said.
News ID: 443464 Publish Date : 2019/02/12
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) rejected a Myanmar claim that there was "no evidence" to suggest its armed forces had raped Rohingya women.
News ID: 443409 Publish Date : 2019/02/10
Scores of tribal villagers in Western Myanmar have crossed into Bangladesh in recent days amid fierce fighting between the army and ethnic rebels in the restive Rakhine state.
News ID: 443389 Publish Date : 2019/02/09
The United Nations (UN)’s envoy for Myanmar says the country’s army chief should be prosecuted for committing genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims, many of whom have now fled but face repatriation to the Buddhist-majority state.
News ID: 443158 Publish Date : 2019/01/26
The UN says new government curbs on aid activities are affecting at least 50,000 people in Myanmar ’s beleaguered Rakhine state, where persecuted Rohingya Muslims are mainly based.
News ID: 443147 Publish Date : 2019/01/25
Bangladesh has denied entry to dozens of Rohingya Muslims seeking to enter the country from neighboring India, leaving them stranded in the no man’s land on the border.
News ID: 443102 Publish Date : 2019/01/22
Some 2,000 Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence in Myanmar , have reportedly left the South Asian country too, fearing continued harassment there and possible deportation.
News ID: 443056 Publish Date : 2019/01/18
Over 4,500 villagers have been displaced by the most recent flareup in fighting between Myanmar ’s military and the Arakan Army in Rakhine state, the UN said.
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News ID: 442948 Publish Date : 2019/01/11