Tags - Rohingya
Rasa - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to discuss the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar next week, a Malaysian official says.
News ID: 426478 Publish Date : 2017/01/11
Activists:
Rasa - Heavy fighting in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prevented a United Nations (UN) special envoy from visiting the embattled area near the Chinese border, activists say.
News ID: 426473 Publish Date : 2017/01/11
Rasa - The UN said at least 65,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar a third of them over the past week since the army launched a crackdown in the North of Rakhine state.
News ID: 426458 Publish Date : 2017/01/11
UN:
Rasa - At least 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution and violence in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since the army launched a crackdown in the northwestern Rakhine State early October, the United Nations says.
News ID: 426413 Publish Date : 2017/01/09
Rasa - Extremist Buddhist nationalists have stopped a Muslim religious ceremony in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, amid an ongoing bloody campaign against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
News ID: 426380 Publish Date : 2017/01/08
Rasa - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed deep concern over the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, calling on the secretary general of the United Nations to take immediate actions to help end the suffering of the people.
News ID: 426338 Publish Date : 2017/01/07
Rasa - The United Nations is conducting a probe into a harsh military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar following reports of rapes, killings, and torture against the minority group in the Buddhist-dominated country.
News ID: 426319 Publish Date : 2017/01/06
HRW:
Rasa - Human rights groups said Myanmar’s government is trying to cover up abuses against civilians in a Muslim-majority part of Rakhine State after an investigation panel dismissed claims a government crackdown there amounts to “genocide”.
News ID: 426296 Publish Date : 2017/01/05
'The Rohingya Alan Kurdi':
Rasa - A heartbreaking picture purporting to show a dead Rohingya child from Myanmar has evoked memories of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi who was found washed up on a Turkish coast after drowning in the Mediterranean sea in 2015.
News ID: 426268 Publish Date : 2017/01/04
Rasa - Graphic footage emerged of several policemen beating two Muslims in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State, prompted the government to address the rare admission of abuse against the country’s persecuted Rohingya minority.
News ID: 426253 Publish Date : 2017/01/03
Rasa - A new video has emerged showing Myanmar’s police using excessive force against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
News ID: 426239 Publish Date : 2017/01/02
Rasa - An aid flotilla organized to deliver food and emergency supplies from Muslim majority Malaysia to Rohingya Muslims is yet to receive permission to enter Myanmar, raising fears of confrontation and deterioration of already-tense ties between the countries.
News ID: 426158 Publish Date : 2016/12/30
Rasa - An aid flotilla carrying food and emergency supplies for Rohingya Muslims will sail from Malaysia for Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State next month, the Malaysian organizer said on Friday.
News ID: 426147 Publish Date : 2016/12/30
Dhaka government:
Rasa - Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry says some 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution and violence in Myanmar to Bangladesh since early October.
News ID: 426136 Publish Date : 2016/12/29
Hundreds of people in Pakistan have held a protest rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
News ID: 425661 Publish Date : 2016/12/10
Rasa - The United Nations urged Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit the north of Rakhine state to put an end to a brutal military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.
News ID: 425630 Publish Date : 2016/12/09
Rasa - Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on Myanmar's army to act within the rule of law amid a heavy crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in the northwestern state of Rakhine.
News ID: 425592 Publish Date : 2016/12/07
Rasa - A new wave of violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has prompted members of the minority community residing in neighboring Bangladesh to speak out about their ordeal at the hands of Myanmarese Buddhists and forces.
News ID: 425547 Publish Date : 2016/12/05
Analyst:
Rasa - Malaysia’s premier has called on the global community to help stop the “genocide” of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, slamming the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for her inaction on the bloodletting against the minority community.
News ID: 425533 Publish Date : 2016/12/04
Malaysia’s premier has called on the global community to help stop the “genocide” of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, slamming the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her inaction on the bloodletting against the minority community.
News ID: 425512 Publish Date : 2016/12/04