Tags - Myanmar
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
Rasa - The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar called for urgent action by local authorities to end the suffering of the Rohingya population in the South East Asian country.
News ID: 427747 Publish Date : 2017/02/28
UN:
Rasa - A United Nations official has deplored “harrowing” acts of violence and discrimination against the Rohingya in Myanmar , calling on the country to put an end to its crackdown on the Muslim minority.
News ID: 427734 Publish Date : 2017/02/27
Rasa - Myanmar 's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has described the daylight assassination of her adviser U Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and critic of Myanmar 's powerful military, a "great loss" for the country's struggle for democracy.
News ID: 427704 Publish Date : 2017/02/26
Rasa - Hundreds of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar have returned home, community leaders said Sunday, adding that most had gone back temporarily to fetch relatives.
News ID: 427523 Publish Date : 2017/02/19
Rasa - The Malaysian Nautical Aliya aid ship, carrying 2,200 tons of rice, emergency supplies and aid-workers, docked at Chittagong Port in Bangladesh, about 140km from Cox's Bazar where thousands of Rohingya Muslims take refuge, to aid the people of the community who are being hunted down and killed in Myanmar .
News ID: 427507 Publish Date : 2017/02/19
Rasa - Myanmar authorities have sentenced a man belonging to the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority to death for his alleged role in a deadly raid on border police posts, an incident that triggered a fierce military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine.
News ID: 427363 Publish Date : 2017/02/13
Rasa - Myanmar ’s police are to conduct a “departmental enquiry” to determine whether law enforcement officers have committed human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingyas in the Buddhist-majority country.
News ID: 427344 Publish Date : 2017/02/13
Rasa - A Malaysian ship carrying 2,300 tons of aid for tens of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims arrived in Myanmar ’s Yangon where it was met by Buddhist protesters.
News ID: 427267 Publish Date : 2017/02/10
UN officials:
Rasa - More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims have allegedly been killed in Myanmar amid the army's intensified crackdown on members of the minority group, two senior United Nations officials have disclosed the horrifying fact.
News ID: 427240 Publish Date : 2017/02/09
Rasa - Two senior United Nations officials disclosed that more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims have allegedly been killed in Myanmar amid the army's intensified crackdown on members of the minority group.
News ID: 427228 Publish Date : 2017/02/08
Rasa - Pope Francis issued a stinging criticism of atrocities against Myanmar 's Rohingya minority on Wednesday, saying they had been tortured and killed simply because they wanted to live their culture and Muslim faith.
News ID: 427226 Publish Date : 2017/02/08
UN:
Rasa - The United Nations said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “was horrified” at the recent report on alleged sexual abuses by security forces in Myanmar against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority.
News ID: 427213 Publish Date : 2017/02/08
HRW:
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Myanmar ese government forces have committed “rape and other sexual violence” against women and girls of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority while carrying out their so-called counter-militancy operations in the western province of Rakhine.
News ID: 427168 Publish Date : 2017/02/06
Rasa - Bangladesh is pressing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate refugees from the persecuted Muslim Rohingya community in neighboring Myanmar to a secluded island despite international concern.
News ID: 427161 Publish Date : 2017/02/06
Rasa - Nearly 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since October when the army launched a crackdown against the Muslim minority after systematic campaign of violence against Rohingya Muslims in Western Rakhine state, but Bangladesh still refuses to register them as refugees
News ID: 427107 Publish Date : 2017/02/04
Activist:
Rasa - A Malaysian flotilla has sailed for Myanmar in a bid to supply aid to Rohingya Muslims amid an escalating wave of crackdown and violence against the minority group.
News ID: 427102 Publish Date : 2017/02/03
Rasa - Myanmar 's security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned down villages since October in a campaign that likely amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing, according to the United Nations.
News ID: 427079 Publish Date : 2017/02/03
Rasa - Authorities in Bangladesh have controversially decided to encamp tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar at a remote offshore location.
News ID: 426964 Publish Date : 2017/01/30
Rasa - A prominent Muslim lawyer and adviser to Myanmar 's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has been assassinated along with a taxi driver outside the country’s busiest airport.
News ID: 426942 Publish Date : 2017/01/29