Tags - Myanmar
Rasa - A court in Thailand sentenced a man to 35 years in prison for masterminding the trafficking of Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing violent prosecution by extremist Buddhists, from Myanmar .
News ID: 423150 Publish Date : 2016/09/01
Rasa - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Myanmar 's stateless Rohingya Muslims should be given the right to citizenship.
News ID: 423106 Publish Date : 2016/08/30
Rasa - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Myanmar 's new leadership to pay “full respect” to human rights in the Southeast Asian country.
News ID: 423076 Publish Date : 2016/08/29
UN:
Rasa - The United Nations has warned that persecuted Rohingya Muslims continue to live in “dreadful conditions” despite promises by the election-winning opposition party to protect the rights of the minority in the Southeast Asian country.
News ID: 4029 Publish Date : 2016/03/04
Rasa - Enduring distressful boat journeys to flee persecution in Burma, hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Indonesia’s Aceh are rejoicing a peaceful Ramadan in the world’s most populous Muslim state.
News ID: 2792 Publish Date : 2015/06/20
UN:
Rasa - The United Nations says nearly half a million members of the persecuted Rohingya community in Myanmar are in need of humanitarian aid as the plight of Muslim minorities in the Asian state continues unabated.
News ID: 2730 Publish Date : 2015/06/13
Rasa - The Dalai Lama has urged Aung San Suu Kyi, a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to speak out to protect Myanmar ’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 2606 Publish Date : 2015/05/29
Rohingya Muslim minority:
Rasa - Around 1,600 Muslim refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh were rescued off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday and detained in Malaysia on Monday.
News ID: 2508 Publish Date : 2015/05/13
Rasa - Bibijan Rahimullah stepped aboard a small boat in Myanmar in October for what she was told would be a week-long journey to Malaysia to escape violence and discrimination afflicting her Rohingya ethnic group.
News ID: 1731 Publish Date : 2014/12/01
Rasa - A joint operation by Police, Border Guard Police (BGP) and Immigration plundered at least 14 Rohingya homes in Duchirandan village and arbitrarily arrested not less than four innocent Rohingyas during a raid conducted in this early morning, the locals report.
News ID: 1725 Publish Date : 2014/12/01
Rasa - Rights groups say thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been forced to leave Myanmar in the last three weeks due to a new controversial government plan.
News ID: 1577 Publish Date : 2014/11/07
Rasa - Myanmar has jailed seven men for lynching 10 Muslim bus passengers in an attack that sparked mass unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in the western state of Rakhine two years ago, authorities said Tuesday.
News ID: 1509 Publish Date : 2014/10/29
Rasa - Police in western India have arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between Hindus and Muslims that left more than a dozen injured and was triggered by an image posted on Facebook, officials said on Monday.
News ID: 1273 Publish Date : 2014/10/01
Horrific report by New York Times:
Rasa - It has been more than a month since Myanmar ’s second-largest city was rocked by deadly anti-Muslim riots. Broken windows and large dents in the facades of a dozen small Muslim-run businesses are the only visible reminders of when about 300 radical Buddhists rode into town wielding swords and bricks, killing two people.
News ID: 1265 Publish Date : 2014/09/29
Rasa - The top UN envoy to Myanmar has emphasized on the urgency for the Muslim minority in the country's violence-ridden Rakhine state to get on the path to citizenship.
News ID: 845 Publish Date : 2014/05/03
Rasa – Muslims in northwestern Myanmar have been attacked by Buddhist extremists and have forced them to flee from their homes in response to the terror.
News ID: 453 Publish Date : 2013/10/02