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Canada MPs vote to strip Myanmar’s Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship
Sep 28, 2018 10:11Canadian lawmakers have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in response to crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Irked by genocide report, Myanmar army chief says UN has no right to ‘interfere’
Sep 24, 2018 10:45Striking a defiant tone, Myanmar’s army chief says the United Nations has no right to meddle in his country’s “internal" issues, a week after the world body’s investigators called for him and fellow top generals to stand trial for “genocide” against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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Irked by genocide report, Myanmar army chief says UN has no right to ‘interfere’
Sep 24, 2018 06:04Striking a defiant tone, Myanmar’s army chief says the United Nations has no right to meddle in his country’s “internal" issues, a week after the world body’s investigators called for him and fellow top generals to stand trial for “genocide” against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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ICC launches investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingya Muslims
Sep 19, 2018 02:41The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Myanmar military's crimes, including killings, sexual violence and forced deportations, against members of the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the Southeast Asian nation.
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UN: Myanmar generals should face genocide charges
Sep 18, 2018 10:44The United Nations (UN) has reiterated its call for the prosecution of Myanmar’s top military officials for what the international body has conclusively decided is genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
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Myanmar finally grants UN first access to Rakhine before Rohingya returns
Sep 12, 2018 10:22The United Nations has begun assessment of conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state after it was finally given permission to operate there for the first time since violence escalated last year and forced more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
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UN calls for new body to prosecute Myanmar crimes
Sep 10, 2018 10:11The United Nations (UN)’s new human rights chief has called for the establishment of “an independent international mechanism” to prepare criminal indictments against Myanmar’s military for atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslim community.
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ICC says it has jurisdiction over Myanmar crimes against Rohingya
Sep 06, 2018 14:34The International Criminal Court says it has jurisdiction to probe the forced deportations of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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Myanmar sentences Reuters journalists to 7 years in jail, prompts reactions
Sep 03, 2018 08:14A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years behind bars for what it called “breaching” a state secrets act while reporting on the military’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a ruling that quickly drew harsh criticisms from all over the world.
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Myanmar sentences Reuters journalists to 7 years in jail, prompts reactions
Sep 03, 2018 03:39A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters’ journalists to seven years behind bars for what it called “breaching” a state secrets act while reporting on the military’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a ruling that quickly drew harsh criticisms from all over the world.