Tags - Myanmar
Rasa - Myanmar ’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected a decision by the United Nations' rights council to investigate allegations of killings, rape and torture by army forces against Rohingya Muslims in the county’s troubled Rakhine State.
News ID: 429389 Publish Date : 2017/05/03
Police:
Rasa - Bangladesh border guards have killed one woman and left four others injured after they opened fire at a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing an ongoing persecution and military crackdown in Myanmar .
News ID: 428882 Publish Date : 2017/04/13
Rasa - Myanmar authorities begin shutting down three displacement camps in the beleaguered Rakhine State, where persecuted Rohingya Muslims are mainly based.
News ID: 428839 Publish Date : 2017/04/11
Rasa - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for the release of the Rohingya children detained by Myanmar ’s government as part of a heavy-handed crackdown on the Muslim minority group in Rakhine State.
News ID: 428778 Publish Date : 2017/04/09
Rasa - Myanmar ’s government has refused to recognize as ethnic-cleansing the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims, who have been subject to a heavy-handed crackdown by the country’s military over the past months.
News ID: 428704 Publish Date : 2017/04/06
Rasa - Following the Islamic Revolution of Iran and then the Soviet Union collapse, the Muslim world’s developments saw transfer to a new stage. Hitherto, the key issue of the Muslim world was the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands, an issue that pushed the Muslim countries towards unity.
News ID: 428583 Publish Date : 2017/04/01
Rasa - A nascent Rohingya-linked armed group, which now calls itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ASRA), has called for international peacekeepers to protect the stateless persecuted Muslim minority in Myanmar ’s Rakhine state.
News ID: 428516 Publish Date : 2017/03/29
Rasa - Myanmar 's army chief has defended an ongoing crackdown against the persecuted Rohingya Muslims minority in Rakhine State after the UN pledged to probe a campaign of killing and torture by security forces there.
News ID: 428465 Publish Date : 2017/03/27
Rasa - Myanmar 's army chief defended a military crackdown in Rakhine State on Monday after the UN pledged to probe claims security forces carried out a campaign of killing and torture against Rohingya Muslims there.
News ID: 428458 Publish Date : 2017/03/27
Rasa - The Rohingya Muslims, who fled persecution in Myanmar , recount their ordeals back at home, where they were subject to torture, rape and violence by the military.
News ID: 428413 Publish Date : 2017/03/25
Rasa - The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar ’s Rakhine state.
News ID: 428389 Publish Date : 2017/03/24
Rasa - Hundreds of extremist Buddhists in Myanmar have staged a protest against a government plan to grant citizenship to some members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community.
News ID: 428264 Publish Date : 2017/03/19
Rasa - A Europe-based rights group has slammed the global community, particularly the UN and the EU, for hindering an independent probe into Myanmar ’s crimes against Rohingya Muslims, warning that the persecuted minority group is suffering a “slow-burning genocide.”
News ID: 428221 Publish Date : 2017/03/18
Rasa - The European Union has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate widespread crimes being committed by the government armed forces against persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
News ID: 428199 Publish Date : 2017/03/16
Rasa - A panel led by former UN chief Kofi Annan says Myanmar needs to close the squalid camps in Rakhine State, where thousands of persecuted displaced Rohingya Muslims have been trapped for nearly five years, and allow them to return home.
News ID: 428197 Publish Date : 2017/03/16
Analyst:
Rasa - The UN special rapporteur on Myanmar , Yanghee Lee, has voiced concern about expulsion of all Rohingya Muslims from the Southeast Asian country.
News ID: 428153 Publish Date : 2017/03/14
Rasa - The UN special rapporteur on Myanmar has expressed concern that the Southeast Asian country may be seeking to "expel" all members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community from its territory.
News ID: 428143 Publish Date : 2017/03/14
Rasa - Within earshot of mortar fire echoing from beyond a ring of hills, a sprawling relief camp in southwestern China is swelling steadily after fighting erupted last week between a rebel ethnic army in Myanmar and government troops just across the border.
News ID: 428134 Publish Date : 2017/03/13
Beijing:
Rasa - Thousands of people from Myanmar have fled into China following recent intense clashes between the military and armed ethnic rebel groups, a senior Chinese official says.
News ID: 428041 Publish Date : 2017/03/10
Rasa - The United Nations has on several occasions warned about large-scale violence being committed against minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar ’s Rakhine State, saying such acts of violence could amount to crimes against humanity.
News ID: 427775 Publish Date : 2017/03/01