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Myanmar junta honors anti-Muslim monk dubbed ‘face of Buddhist terror’
Jan 05, 2023 15:11The military junta in Myanmar has honored an ultranationalist anti-Muslim Buddhist monk dubbed the 'Face of Buddhist terror" with a prestigious national award, and also announced the decision to free thousands of prisoners under amnesty.
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In first resolution on Myanmar in decades, UN Security Council urges release of political prisoners
Dec 22, 2022 16:08The United Nations Security Council has called on Myanmar's military rulers to end violence and release all political prisoners, in its first ever resolution on the country in more than seven decades.
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Afghan Taliban, Myanmar junta not allowed into UN for now
Dec 17, 2022 14:05The UN General Assembly has for the second time approved postponing a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar’s military junta can send a UN ambassador to New York.
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UN chief urges junta to end Myanmar’s ‘unending nightmare’
Nov 12, 2022 17:00UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the international community has failed Myanmar, urging the ruling junta to cut the “unending nightmare.”
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Rohingya refugees in India allege spate of attacks by miscreants
Oct 29, 2022 17:50Terrified by the expulsion drive in India, Rohingya refugees now allege intimidation and physical abuse by villains. A number of children and women were beaten up in one of the refugee camps on the outskirts of New Delhi as fear mounted within the destitute community.
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Court in Myanmar adds 3 years to Suu Kyi’s jail term
Oct 12, 2022 15:06A court in Myanmar has convicted the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on two more corruption charges, adding to previous convictions that now leave her with a 26-year total prison term.
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Documents reveal Israel’s role in Myanmar army’s atrocities
Oct 07, 2022 13:15Newly declassified data demonstrate how the Israeli regime backed the Myanmar army through various repressive means, enabling it to commit atrocities against dissidents as well as minority groups such as Rohingya Muslims.
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India set to deport Rohingya Muslim refugees in New Delhi
Aug 18, 2022 20:15India's Home Ministry says the persecuted Rohingya Muslim refugees in New Delhi will be held at a detention center and then expelled.
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UN: It’s still unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar
Aug 18, 2022 06:23UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says conditions are not suitable yet for the Rohingya Muslim refugees to return to Myanmar.
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UN Human Rights chief to visit Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
Aug 14, 2022 13:27UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday on a four-day trip that includes a visit to the squalid camps where over a million displaced Rohingya refugees from Myanmar reside.