Tags - Ruhingya
Rasa - An international rights group has warned Myanmar that its widespread military crackdown on the Rohingya community may amount to crimes against humanity, as a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers convenes in the country to discuss means of ending the plight of the ethnic Muslims.
News ID: 425904 Publish Date : 2016/12/19
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged countries from the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) to make strong efforts at an emergency meeting of the group to resolve the ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
News ID: 425863 Publish Date : 2016/12/18
UN:
Rasa - The UN's rights agency said that Myanmar's Rohingya might be victims of crimes against humanity, as former UN chief Kofi Annan arrived in the country for a visit that will include a trip to Northern Rakhine.
News ID: 425407 Publish Date : 2016/11/30
Rasa - A group in Europe advocating Rohingya Muslims says Myanmar’s military manipulated some members of the community into carrying out an attack on a border outpost back in October in order to legitimize a crackdown on the Muslims.
News ID: 425364 Publish Date : 2016/11/28
UN official:
RNA - A high-ranking United Nations official says Myanmar authorities have stepped up persecution of Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country, and are actually conducting a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against members of the community.
News ID: 425307 Publish Date : 2016/11/25
Rasa - Angry protesters have taken to the streets from Jakarta to Dhaka to denounce Myanmar's indiscriminate killing and rape in a military crackdown on the country's Muslim minority.
News ID: 425303 Publish Date : 2016/11/25
UN Official:
Rasa - Myanmar is engaged in "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a UN official said, as reports emerged Friday of troops shooting at villagers as they tried to flee.
News ID: 425299 Publish Date : 2016/11/25
Rasa - Bangladeshi police have detained dozens of Rohingya refugees, including women and children, who have fled Myanmar's violence-ravaged Rakhine state.
News ID: 425265 Publish Date : 2016/11/23
Aid workers:
Rasa - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says hundreds of minority Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have crossed the border to seek shelter in neighboring Bangladesh over the past three days, as violence escalates in the country’s northwest.
News ID: 425247 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
Rasa - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that over the weekend hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar and entered Bangladesh to escape the increasing violence in the country.
News ID: 425242 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
Rasa - Myanmar's military has killed scores of Rohingya Muslims in its recent crackdown across the western state of Rakhine, a London-based advocacy group says.
News ID: 425104 Publish Date : 2016/11/16
Rasa - Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims fleeing a surge in violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine are stranded on the Bangladesh border.
News ID: 425080 Publish Date : 2016/11/15
Rasa - Myanmar’s forces have killed dozens of Rohinya Muslims in its latest wave of crackdown on the country’s most persecuted minority in western Rakhine State.
News ID: 425040 Publish Date : 2016/11/14
Rasa - High-definition satellite imagery has revealed widespread destruction by fire in an ethnic Muslim-majority state under an army siege in Myanmar, says Human Rights Watch (HRW).
News ID: 424998 Publish Date : 2016/11/13
UNICEF:
Rasa - The UN children's agency UNICEF says Myanmar's military crackdown on Muslim-majority Rakhine state is taking a "terrible toll" on children following earlier reports of rape and other atrocities.
News ID: 424933 Publish Date : 2016/11/10
Rasa - A leading English-language newspaper in Myanmar has suspended its reporting on the western Rakhine state, home to many Rohingya Muslim minorities.
News ID: 424869 Publish Date : 2016/11/07
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released satellite imagery showing that at least three villages in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State, home to the persecuted Rohingya Muslims, have been burned.
News ID: 424688 Publish Date : 2016/10/31
Rasa - Rights groups have called for an independent investigation into reports that Myanmar forces are killing, raping and torturing villagers in the restive Rakhine region, home to Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 424643 Publish Date : 2016/10/29
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